Drop a Postgres Database Forcefully

drop-postgres-forcefully.sh

-- Set the database to reject new connections
ALTER DATABASE db_name CONNECTION LIMIT 0;

-- Terminate all existing connections to the database
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE pg_stat_activity.datname = 'db_name'
  AND pid <> pg_backend_pid();

-- Drop the database
DROP DATABASE db_name;