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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Deleting idle connections
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:12:13 -0500
Message-ID: <CANzqJaDVz6H=wUqXi72ZieNs3ivTSuYxnM6AYxEKKOMQigU_iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM Yongye Serkfem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
> I am having a series of idle connections and unable to delete them with a
> single command. Any help in realizing this would be greatly appreciated.
>

This will kill idle connections older than two hours:
select pid, pg_terminate_backend(pid)
from pg_stat_activity
where state = 'idle'
  and (EXTRACT(epoch FROM now() - backend_start))/3600.0 > 2;

Be warned that it might kill more than you want.  Add more WHERE predicates
as filter.

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