Re: how to terminate a process when kill fails

On 30 Oct 2002 at 10:14, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:

>
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2.
> I think I may have asked before, but I never got an answer
> that told me one way or another -
> How can I kill processes without kill -9 <pid> and
> ruining the database?

Just kill pid works. After that you should see postgresql shutdown subprocess
in ps listing. After all clients are done, it shuts down.

Postmaster man page lists signal and behaviour of postmaster. That should be
helpful.

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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