Tino Wildenhain <tino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either via an SQL function or SIGTERM > I thought this already works? At least I'm doing so when I need ... > (SIGTERM) The key word there is "safely". We don't have a lot of trust in SIGTERM'ing individual backends (as opposed to shutting down the whole cluster at once, which is a well-tested code path). See the archives. regards, tom lane