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From Nikolai Cheltsov
Subject connection management
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Msg-id bf7b1e3e0710180338n4e9f0b0ha1abb0475faec014@mail.gmail.com
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As I am not sure how to execute this function(is there analog of DUAL table in Oracle), I am using something like this;

SELECT pg_cancel_backend(15429) FROM pg_stat_activity;

The result is;

ERROR: function pg_cancel_backend(integer) does not exist

Aby Ideas?
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On 10/18/07, A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
am  Thu, dem 18.10.2007, um 11:34:29 +0200 mailte Nikolai Cheltsov folgendes:
> Hi All,
>
> I could not find any information about this simple question.
>
> How can I understand who is connected to a given database? How can I kill all
> connections to a database in order, for example, to remove it?

You can use pg_stat_activity to find all connected backends, and you can
use pg_cancel_backend(pid int) to kill a specific backend.

Andreas
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