Thanks everyone. A more direct way to check via a sql function would be better but I suppose the dblink extension method will work.
Thanks again, Dennis On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 9:38 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> writes: > > On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:12 -0400, Dennis White wrote: > >> My project's DB has a mutli-step stored procedure using Transaction > Control that may take 30 minutes or more to complete. > >> I am curious if there is a way to make it more smart shutdown friendly > so it can stop between steps? > > > I don't think there is a direct way to do that in SQL; that would > require a new > > system function that exposes canAcceptConnections() in SQL. > > It's worse than that: the state variables involved are local to the > postmaster, so you wouldn't get the right answer in a backend even > if the function were reachable. > > > What you could do is use the dblink extension to connect to the local > database. > > If you get an error "the database system is shutting down", there is a > smart > > shutdown in progress. > > This'd probably work. Ugly, but ... > > regards, tom lane >
