Re: Is there a way to kill a connection from the pg_stat_activitly list? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On 10/15/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> When you see a hanging Postgres connection (or a job running so long and you
> don't want to continue any more) from
>
> select * from pg_stat_activity
>
> and you want to disconnect it,
>
> how do you do it?

See pg_cancel_backend

You should also look at using statement_timeout if this is a regular occurrence.


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