How to kill sessions in Redshift

Identify the session that you would like to terminate from the below view and copy the process id.

SELECT * FROM STV_SESSIONS;

Kill the session as below where pid is the process id of the user session that you would like to terminate.

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid);

Output ‘1’ indicates the session has been terminated successfully.

Kill all the sessions of a particular user as below:

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(process) FROM STV_SESSIONS where user_name='username' and process != pg_backend_pid();