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Find and Kill Queries
SELECT pid,
age(clock_timestamp(), query_start),
usename,
state,
-- get rid of newlines, runs of spaces
regexp_replace(query, E'[\\n\\r ]+', ' ', 'g' ) as query
-- , pg_terminate_backend(pid) -- UNCOMMENT TO KILL
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query LIKE '%' -- Edit as necessary to match your query
AND query NOT LIKE 'SELECT pid,%' -- Don't kill the query-killing query…
AND state != 'idle' -- Idle connections are innocent.
AND usename != 'rdsadmin' -- Can't kill these, don't try.
ORDER BY age DESC;
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