How to drop a PostgreSQL database if there are active connections to it?

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.procpid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE pg_stat_activity.datname = ‘TARGET_DB‘
  AND procpid <> pg_backend_pid();

SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE pg_stat_activity.datname = ‘TARGET_DB‘
  AND pid <> pg_backend_pid();

pg_backend_pid:Process ID of the server process attached to the current session

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# kill all connections to the postgres server
if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
  where="where pg_stat_activity.datname = ‘$1‘"
  echo "killing all connections to database ‘$1‘"
else
  echo "killing all connections to database"
fi

cat <<-EOF | psql -U postgres -d postgres 
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
${where}
EOF