Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Huh? If you zap the postmaster with kill -9, the last checkpoint record
>> in the WAL log will not have the shutdown bit set.
> It does here:
Had you actually done anything to the database between postmaster
startup and kill? If there's no reason to do a checkpoint then it
won't checkpoint, so the last checkpoint would be from the previous
incarnation. But under normal circumstances I see "shutdown FALSE"
here.
regards, tom lane