smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Marlowe) writes: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:08, Ing. Jhon Carrillo wrote: >> I have a problem with the users administration. When I want to erase >> (drop) some databases there's an error: ** database "name_db" is being >> accessed by other users.** I want to kill the user sessions conected >> but i don't know how to do it (Kill the user sessions). > > First, use ps to find the pid of the offending users. for instance: > > ps ax|grep postgres|grep test > 18925 pts/1 S 0:00 postgres: postgres test [local] idle > > then, as the postgres superuser, kill the backend: > > kill 18925 You may want to be careful about what signal you submit. If you do "kill -9", for instance, that may be a more severe "thwacking" of the system than you intended. Hitting it with "kill -2" is usually the right answer; that's SIGINT. Other signals may cause the database to kill ALL the backends. "kill -3", for instance... "kill -9" will terminate the whole database system, 'with extreme prejudice,' which will be quite likely to turn out badly :-(. -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/sap.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #78. "I will not tell my Legions of Terror "And he must be taken alive!" The command will be: ``And try to take him alive if it is reasonably practical.''" <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
