[GENERAL] Postmaster does not shut down

2007-08-17 Thread Jeff Amiel
A 'bad' thing happened yesterday. Postgresql 8.1.X FreeBSD 6.0 At some point in the day, ran out of space on the root filesystem. (db is elsewhere) Took about 10 minutes to clear enough space to make processes stop freaking out and to slow my heart-rate down to below 200 beats per minute. Everyt

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster does not shut down

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 30. September 2005 07:07 schrieb surabhi.ahuja: > /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /export/home1/sdc_image_pool/dbx/ stop > the following is displayed: > waiting for postmaster to shut > down... failed > pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down

[GENERAL] postmaster does not shut down

2005-09-29 Thread surabhi.ahuja
 when i grep for postmaster ps -aef | grep postmaster   it says: /usr/bin/postmaster -D /export/home1/sdc_image_pool/dbx -p 5432   when i try to stop postmaster doing   /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /export/home1/sdc_image_pool/dbx/ stop the following is displayed: waiting for postmaster to shut down..

[GENERAL] postmaster does not shut down

2004-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am getting 'postmaster does not shut down' when trying to stop the database with '.../pg_ctl -D /path/to/datadir stop -m fast. How should I proceed to get the database shut down and restarted? Are there other options besides immediate shutdown flag? I dont' want to lose everything I've worked on