| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> | 
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| To: | Nimesh Satam <nimesh(dot)zedo(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Stuck "idle in transaction (aborted)" | 
| Date: | 2011-01-14 06:17:37 | 
| Message-ID: | 4D2FEA81.20208@postnewspapers.com.au | 
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On 01/14/2011 12:01 PM, Nimesh Satam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a stale connection on one of our machine. The connection is
> shown as follows:
>
> 26286 ?        Ss     1:31 postgres: postgres reporting localhost
> (37118) idle in transaction (aborted)
>
>
> Can anybody let me know how we can get rid of such connection, is there
> are any command which will kill such a aborted transaction in a safe manner?
psql> select pg_terminate_backend(26286);
or
shell$> kill 26286
Do ***NOT*** use "kill -9" or "kill -KILL".
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Craig Ringer
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