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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

You can terminate a user's session with the pg_terminate_backend() function included with PostgreSQL. That function takes the PID, or the process ID, of the user's session on the server. This process is known as the backend, and it is a different system process from the program that runs the client.

To find the PID of a user, we can look at the pg_stat_activity view. We can use it in a query, like this:

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid)FROM pg_stat_activityWHERE ...

There are a couple of things to note if you run this query. If the WHERE clause doesn't match any sessions, then you won't get any output from the query. Similarly, if it matches multiple rows, you will get a fairly useless result, that is, a list of Boolean true ...

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