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drop a database in use by other sessions

Ave Romani answered on August 26, 2022 Popularity 3/10 Helpfulness 3/10

answer drop a database in use by other sessions

drop a database in use by other sessions

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--step1: revoke new connections to target dbname
REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE dbname FROM PUBLIC, username;

--step2: delete connections to the dbname
SELECT 
    pg_terminate_backend(procpid) 
FROM 
    pg_stat_activity 
WHERE 
    -- don't kill my own connection!
    procpid <> pg_backend_pid()
    -- don't kill the connections to other databases
    AND datname = 'database_name'
    ;

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Source: stackoverflow.com

Tags: database drop sql

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