> > > Since stopping or restarting the postgres servers would involve complete > > invalidation of the connection pool [Java/JEE app server pool] that may > take > > a few minutes before the application becomes usable, it would be great if > > there is a way we can disable replication [for maintenance reasons like > > applying patches or upgrades, etc]. > > I think even applying patches or upgrades needs restart.
> 3. send SIGTERM signal to currently-running walsender process, e.g., by > "select pg_terminate_backend(pid) from pg_stat_replication". Will it be helpful here sending SIGINT instead of killing ? --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/
