Postmaster not stopping - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Mulcahy
Subject Postmaster not stopping
Date
Msg-id 037901c12739$8dcf5980$0301a8c0@cmulcahy.com
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In response to Re: assigning result of SELECT in TRIGGER  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Postmaster not stopping  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-general
Greetings:

I'm having problems stopping the postmaster.  As I'm very well aware,
kill -i on the postmaster is a Bad Thing (tm), so what are my options?
What can I look for to help me narrow down the problem?

Any help appreciated.  Below is a log from what I'm doing.

Thanks!
Chris

[root@gumby bin]# ./pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ stop
waiting for postmaster to shut
down................................................................
failed
pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/cmulcahy
[root@gumby bin]# ./pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ stop
waiting for postmaster to shut
down................................................................
failed
pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down



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