On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:50:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Howard Cole wrote: > >> I take it from the lack of response that nobody knows how to kill a > >> connection from the postgresql side on windows? > > > You can't, short of sending a signal to the process or restarting the > > service. > > Which you can do, no? I thought pg_ctl's kill option was invented > specifically to make this less painful on Windows. It does, and it shuold work. But it's just as dangerous as using kill directly on the backends on Unix, of course. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster