Re: [HACKERS] How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster

[Bruce Momjian]

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > This will try a pg_ctl shutdown for 60 seconds, then kill pg_ctl.  You
> > would then need a kill of you own.
> 
> pg_ctl automatically times out after 60 seconds.

Oh, yea, that's right, I saw that in the documenation.  Forget my
script.  Just run pg_ctl first, then kill the postmaster if it is still
there.  Much safer than doing kill and checking because pg_ctl knows
when the system cleanly shuts down and exits.

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