Question

I logged in to source database template1 and now I can’t create database.
When I try to create database, I get this error:

OperationalError: source database "template1" is being accessed by other users
DETAIL:  There are 5 other session(s) using the database.

Every time I login to template1, I use ‘exit’ command to logout, but as you can see it does not logout and number of sessions increases everytime I login. Is there a way to force disconnect every connection to template1 that logged in now?

Answer 1

This helped me solve my problem:

SELECT *, pg_terminate_backend(procpid) 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE usename='username';

--Use pid if PostgreSQL version 9.2 or above.

I terminated all active connections to template1 and could create database normally