Re: Stopping Postgres

I'm using PG 8.0.1 on Gentoo Linux (kernel 2.6.10 SMP) on Pentium 4 w/ HT.

I run the following as root:

su postgres -c "pg_ctl stop -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -m fast"

Or with -m immediate. Some of the backends stop but others never
shutdown. Even if I do a killall postmaster (just with sigterm, not -9),
these backends hang around. The backends are currently executing queries
but the queries stop running at this point.

I'm not starting the server with pg_ctl, I run postmaster by hand.
Perhaps there is something in my init script that is to blame.

Cheers
David

Tom Lane wrote:
> David Mitchell <david(dot)mitchell(at)telogis(dot)com> writes:
>
>>What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found
>>that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to
>>actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has
>>failed to stop). This is the same even if we use -m immediate.
>
>
> pg_ctl always works for me (and I use it several times a day ;-)).
> What PG version are you using, on what platform? Is it possible
> you've got permissions problems?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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David Mitchell
Software Engineer
Telogis