Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: can't stop autovacuum by HUP'ing the server
Date: 2008-08-25 14:43:40
Message-ID: 20080825144340.GC15097@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dave Cramer wrote:

> Well, I go the extra mile and kill any remaing autovac procs
>
> Here are the logs
>
> 2008-08-25 04:00:01 EDT [32276] LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
> 2008-08-25 04:00:01 EDT [20526] LOG: autovacuum launcher started

What did you SIGHUP, the launcher or postmaster? You need the latter.
The launcher should exit automatically at that time.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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