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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:07:00 -0600
Message-ID: <h2vdcc563d11004192007u167088d7g77900fca2c3a40e3@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to disconnect a single user in Postgresql 8.2.5 from
	a database
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>,
 Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com>,
	Steph L <engel306sl@yahoo.fr>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> writes:
>> pg_terminate_backend() is just a SQL wrapper around:
>> =A0 =A0kill -SIGTERM [backend PID]
>
>> For versions before 8.4: if you can SSH in to the server, run the
>> above on the PID of the backend your user is connected to, and that
>> should terminate their connection.
>
> The reason the function isn't there before 8.4 is that that's not
> promised to work before 8.4 ... most of the time it will work, but
> once in awhile you could get nasty side-effects.

So, pg_cancel_backend(pid) is the 8.3 version, that may or may not
always work then, right?