Force client disconnect using PostgreSQL

Question

Is there a way to force clients to disconnect from PostgreSQL? I\'m looking for the equivlent of DB2\'s force application all.

I\'d like to do this on my development

Answer 1

Kills idle processes in PostgreSQL 8.4:

SELECT procpid, (SELECT pg_terminate_backend(procpid)) as killed from pg_stat_activity
   WHERE current_query LIKE '';