>Jens Hartwig writes:
>
>> is there any way to identify users which are currently connected to the
>> database? Does perhaps even exist a method to notify this users (e.g. to
>> close the connection)?
>
>ps ax | grep postgres
>
>is the best way to go.
This command tells me that several backends are running, and owned by
the postgres user... (all my users are connected via the LAN to the
database server).