| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster |
| Date: | 2001-03-06 16:54:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200103061654.LAA09057@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > This will try a pg_ctl shutdown for 60 seconds, then kill pg_ctl. You
> > would then need a kill of you own.
>
> pg_ctl automatically times out after 60 seconds.
Oh, yea, that's right, I saw that in the documenation. Forget my
script. Just run pg_ctl first, then kill the postmaster if it is still
there. Much safer than doing kill and checking because pg_ctl knows
when the system cleanly shuts down and exits.
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