Re: Default mode for shutdown

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default mode for shutdown
Date: 2010-12-16 10:46:20
Message-ID: AANLkTin-v5xX2urcDF+ove6L0dzzNNK2wk7XCksTz9xs@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 19:26, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:
> On 12/15/2010 03:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, and more to the point, do I want to finish whatever I was doing in
>> that window?  Fast-by-default is a nice hammer to swing, but one day
>> you'll pound your finger.
>
> Magnus pointed out that most distributions already use fast shutdown.
> So it seems most people are used to that hammer, no?

Typical users might not use "pg_ctl stop" directly. If they use "service"
or init.d commands, the default shutdown modes are probably fast mode.
It's also true in the service control on MS Windows.

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Itagaki Takahiro

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