Re: server won't shutdown

From: "Ed L(dot)" <pggeneral(at)bluepolka(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Laurette Cisneros <laurette(at)nextbus(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: server won't shutdown
Date: 2003-02-18 00:24:20
Message-ID: 200302171724.20022.pggeneral@bluepolka.net
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On Monday February 17 2003 5:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgadmin(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> > I've been seeing the same problem intermittently over the past 2
> > years among ~30 production clusters.
>
> Hm, I suddenly have a theory. Do you guys use LISTEN/NOTIFY in the
> databases that are exhibiting the problem? Is it possible that the
> backends that aren't cooperating have not done anything since they
> last received a NOTIFY? (That would imply that the connected
> frontend didn't issue any SQL commands in response to the
> notification.)

Not using LISTEN/NOTIFY here, at least not of which I'm aware. I'll
dig a little more and let you know if I find differently.

Ed

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