Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> 2. Why would you necessarily care to wait for shutdown? Startup I can
> see, but shutdown doesn't seem so important.
Well, maybe I'm the only one who has a script like
pg_ctl -w stop
cd ~/.../backend; make installbin
pg_ctl start
but I got burnt regularly until I put -w in there ;-)
regards, tom lane