Re: v10 pg_ctl compatibility

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Really? The server should have detached itself from your terminal
> >> group long before that. What platform is this?
>
> > CentOS release 6.9 (Final)
>
> Hm, same as here. Are you perhaps not using pg_ctl's -l option?
> If not, the postmaster's stderr would remain attached to your tty,
> which might be the reason why a terminal ^C affects it.
>

I was not using -l. Instead I set logging_collector=on in postgresql.conf,
but I suppose that that is not sufficent?

But I just retried with -l, and it still gets the fast shutdown.

Cheers,

Jeff