Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Assuming a *nix server: if a monitoring program determines that an
established connection appears to be trying to so something inappropriate,
what's the best way of terminating that session rapidly?
select pg_terminate_backend(procpid) from pg_stat_activity where .....
The main difficulty is recognizing which PID to terminate, though.
Exactly :-)
I'd add that this is a hypothetical situation at present, I'm just
trying to plan ahead.
There's a good lot of information available in pg_stat_activity;
logins, application names, and connection IP addresses are handy here.
But ultimately, it's just pg_terminate_backend.
ChrisA
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