DISCONNECT
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## DISCONNECT

DISCONNECT — terminate a database connection

## Synopsis

    DISCONNECT connection_name
    DISCONNECT [ CURRENT ]
    DISCONNECT ALL

## Description

DISCONNECT closes a connection (or all connections) to the database.

## Parameters

`connection_name`

  A database connection name established by the CONNECT command.

`CURRENT`

  Close the “current” connection, which is either the most recently opened connection, or the connection set by the SET CONNECTION command. This is also the default if no argument is given to the DISCONNECT command.

`ALL`

  Close all open connections.

## Examples

    int
    main(void)
    {
        EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con1 USER testuser;
        EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con2 USER testuser;
        EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con3 USER testuser;

        EXEC SQL DISCONNECT CURRENT;  /* close con3          */
        EXEC SQL DISCONNECT ALL;      /* close con2 and con1 */

        return 0;
    }

## Compatibility

DISCONNECT is specified in the SQL standard.

## See Also

CONNECT, SET CONNECTION

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