Re: how to kill a Postgres connection on the list of select * from pg_stat_activity?

On 8/20/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sometime a script talking to the Postgres has already been killed on the OS
> level, but the Postgres for this script is still listed out of select * from
> pg_stat_activity, saying a particular database is still being accessed by
> this script.
>
> How to kill (release) this connection in this case?
>

see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-admin.html

sepcifically

pg_cancel_backend(pid)