Re: [HACKERS] Switch pg_ctl's default about waiting?

[Tom Lane]

Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2.  Why would you necessarily care to wait for shutdown?  Startup I can
> see, but shutdown doesn't seem so important.

Well, maybe I'm the only one who has a script like
        pg_ctl -w stop
        cd ~/.../backend; make installbin
        pg_ctl start
but I got burnt regularly until I put -w in there ;-)

                        regards, tom lane