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From Chris Angelico
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In response to Terminating a rogue connection  (Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.pgsql-general@telemetry.co.uk>)
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.pgsql-general@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> Assuming a *nix server: if a monitoring program determines that an
> established connection appears to be trying to so something inappropriate,
> what's the best way of terminating that session rapidly?

select pg_terminate_backend(procpid) from pg_stat_activity where .....

The main difficulty is recognizing which PID to terminate, though.
There's a good lot of information available in pg_stat_activity;
logins, application names, and connection IP addresses are handy here.
But ultimately, it's just pg_terminate_backend.

ChrisA

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