Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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 03:06:41
Message-ID: 3AA45441.D1999508@wgcr.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> This will try a pg_ctl shutdown for 60 seconds, then kill pg_ctl. You
> would then need a kill of you own.

I missed something somehwere: wasn't the consensus a few weeks ago that
pg_ctl shouldn't be used for a system initscript? Or did I black out
that day? :-) I certainly have no problem using pg_ctl for this purpose
-- as I have been using pg_ctl to start postmaster all along (then why
am I not using it to stop -- don't answer that :-))......
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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