Re: including pid's for `There are XX other sessions using the database`

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Zhihong Yu wrote:
> I want to poll the community on whether including proc->pid's in the error message would be useful for troubleshooting.
Such message is only useful for a parameter into a pg_stat_activity query. You
don't need the PID list if you already have the most important information:
database name. I don't think revealing the current session PIDs from the
database you want to drop will buy you anything. It could be a long list and it
does not help you to solve the issue: why wasn't that database removed?

Besides that, if you know that there is a possibility that a connection is
open, you can always use the FORCE option. The old/other alternative is to use
a query like

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE datname = 'foo';

(possibly combined with a REVOKE CONNECT or pg_hba.conf modification) before
executing DROP DATABASE.

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