psql -d appdb -c "SELECT pid, query FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE state = 'active';"

Category: Databases & SQL

psql -d appdb -c "SELECT pid, query FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE state = 'active';"

Show active query process IDs

Narrows pg_stat_activity to the process ID and SQL text of running queries, compact enough to eyeball during an incident. Combine with SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid) to kill the offender.
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