It isn't pretty, but as 'su' or 'postgres' you can kill the the "postmaster pid".
However, you may have to clean up 'junk files' left in the data base. Don't do
this except as a last resort.
mike
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Dr Michael A. Koerber
MIT/Lincoln Laboratory
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