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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:03:36 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
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To: "Little, Douglas" <DOUGLAS.LITTLE@orbitz.com>
CC: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>,
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Subject: Re: how to PG close session
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Little, Douglas wrote:
> The only admin function that look close is 
> pg_terminate_backend(pid int)	boolean	Terminate a backend
> I tried it and it couldn't be found.  It is newist.  We're running PG8.2.13/GP3.3.7
>   

Yes, that's an 8.4 function.


> We tried pgpool for awhile,   but I think I'll have a look at the code first.
> I did find in the JDBC doc  connections.close  which should do the trick I suspect.
>   

Does your Java app have an application server like Tomcat in it?  Those 
can be setup to work about as well as a PostgreSQL specific pooler, and 
you get tighter integration with the application itself normally in the 
process.

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