On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:14:48 -0700, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>Why doesn't the Windows scheduled shutdown signal postgres to shutdown
>cleanly and wait for it to do so? That is what is supposed to happen.
Windows *does* signal shutdown (and sleep and hibernate and wakeup).
pg_ctl can catch these signals only when running as a service ... it
will not catch any system signals when run as an application.
George