RE: Sorry, too many clients already

At 19.42 26/3/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Mahesh Guleria writes:
>
> > Use these commands :
> >
> > ps -ef|grep post
> > kill -9 [process id]
>
>Don't do that, it might destroy your database. SIGTERM should be used to
>kill individual backends.
>
>--
>Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
>
You can do it like this:

killall -TERM postmaster
or
kill -TERM `pidof postmaster`

The SIGTERM signal can be trapped by a process and when is invoked the
process can close all the opened resources like files and pipes.

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