Re: postmaster failing to shut down

"Mona Gamboa" <mona(at)loopone(dot)com> writes:

;; Hi,
;; I'm new to PostgreSQL--have been using it for 3-4 months now.
;; I've been porting our Oracle DB and applications to PostgreSQL
;; and I am using the latest release 7.3.
;;
;; Anyway, when I do try to shutdown the postmaster with the
;; following command:
;;
;; pg_ctl -D /home/postgres/pgsql/DATA stop -m fast
;;
;; I get the following:
;;
;; waiting for postmaster to shut down..........................
;; ...................................... failed
;; pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down
;;
;; Any ideas why this is happening? And what I can do to avoid this?

Hi Mona,

Pg_ctl is a bash script. As such, you can read it in order to try and
figure out what's going on. The default location, I believe, is
/usr/local/bin.

Peace,

Petr