Re: Debug advice when postgres connection maxing out

Hello,
>
> Server: OS X 10.5
> PostgreSQL version: 8.3
>
> We experience this connection maxing out once in the full moon.
> The request from client reaches to the server but client never
> receive response back.
> The queries are very simple update on one record or select one
> record using primary key (checked current_query from pg_stat_activity).
> Once this started, I normally disconnect all the client (quit client
> programs) however, the processes don't die on postgres server.
Will this command help?
select pg_cancel_backend(pid);
Please see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-admin.html

Regards,
Jayadevan

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