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Force postgresql dropdb without restarting
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# first get the ids from the process that still connected to db
$ psql -d db_name -c "select procpid from pg_stat_activity where datname='db_name' and waiting is not false;"
# after, kill the process that still connected to db
$ kill procpid_returned_from_query
$ dropdb db_name
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