Arjen van der Meijden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are all the lines there are for Sep 1:
> [ - 2005-09-01 12:36:50 CEST @] LOG: received fast shutdown request > [ - 2005-09-01 12:36:50 CEST @] LOG: shutting down > [ - 2005-09-01 12:36:50 CEST @] LOG: database system is shut down > [ - 2005-09-01 12:37:01 CEST @] LOG: received smart shutdown request > [ - 2005-09-01 12:37:01 CEST @] LOG: shutting down > [ - 2005-09-01 12:37:01 CEST @] LOG: database system is shut down That's all? There's something awfully suspicious about that. You're sure this is 8.0.3? AFAICS it is absolutely impossible for the 8.0 postmaster.c code to emit "received smart shutdown request" after emitting "received fast shutdown request". The SIGINT code looks like if (Shutdown >= FastShutdown) break; Shutdown = FastShutdown; ereport(LOG, (errmsg("received fast shutdown request"))); and the SIGTERM code looks like if (Shutdown >= SmartShutdown) break; Shutdown = SmartShutdown; ereport(LOG, (errmsg("received smart shutdown request"))); and there are no other places that change the value of Shutdown, and certainly FastShutdown > SmartShutdown. So I wonder if something got lost in the log entries. Another question is why the postmaster didn't exit at 12:36:50. It was not waiting on any backends, else it would not have launched the shutdown process (which is what emits the other two messages). [ thinks for a bit ... ] I wonder if Shutdown ought to be marked volatile, since it is after all changed by a signal handler. But given the way the postmaster is coded, this doesn't seem likely to be an issue. Basically all of the code runs with signals blocked. Can you try to reconstruct what you did on Sep 1, and see whether you can reproduce the above behavior? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org