[GENERAL] Error stopping postgresql service on a standby server.

Hi, In our project, we use Postgres 9.1.3 version and asynchronous streaming replication. In recent times, on couple of our setups, we saw issues stopping Postgres service on the standby server after streaming replication was setup. The command "service postgresql stop" returned with a failure me

Re: [GENERAL] Error stopping postgresql service on a standby server.

Hi, Has anyone encountered this issue? Why would the WAL receiver process not stop when postmaster is shutdown? Any suggestions on how to avoid running into this error or ways to recover from it? Thank you in advance for any inputs on this, Dipti On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Dipti