PostgreSQL - Rename database

Question

I need to rename the database but when I do in PGAdmin : ALTER DATABASE \"databaseName\" RENAME TO \"databaseNameOld\" it told me that it cannot.

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Answer 1

Instead of deploying a nuke (restarting the server) you should try to close those connections that bother you either by finding where are they from and shutting down the client processes or by using the pg_cancel_backend() function.