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

On 10/16/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If the connection is from the local machine, I can find it with "ps -ef |
> grep procpid", then kill it with Unix command "kill" outside Postgres...
>
> But I have many remote connections coming from different machines...it is
> hard to kill on the OS level outside Postgres on the postgres host...
>
> I am looking for something to kill a Postgres user connection within
> Postgres...
> Some thing like, you find the user connection with select * from
> pg_stat_activity...then you pick a procpid and kill right there...

Write a C stored procedure that takes a pid and calls kill(2), install
it on the server, and call it from SQL.

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