> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:50:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>>> Howard Cole wrote:
>>>> I take it from the lack of response that nobody knows how to kill a
>>>> connection from the postgresql side on windows?
>>> You can't, short of sending a signal to the process or restarting the
>>> service.
>> Which you can do, no? I thought pg_ctl's kill option was invented
>> specifically to make this less painful on Windows.
>
> It does, and it shuold work. But it's just as dangerous as using kill
> directly on the backends on Unix, of course.
wasn't the OP asking for a way to kill active connections to a db? afaik
pgAdmin3 does provide this functionality:
pgadmin3 > tools > server status
there you can easily terminate connections & transactions to a
particular db. works pretty well in my test, i can kill active
connections and drop the db afterwards.
regards,
thomas