Re: kill-9 postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Devrim GUNDUZ
Subject Re: kill-9 postmaster
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Msg-id 1143134434.8344.22.camel@evim.gunduz.org
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In response to kill-9 postmaster  ("Moginraj Mohandas" <moginmo@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-novice
Hi,

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:17 -0600, Moginraj Mohandas wrote:

>  What is the best way to stop the database.

Send termination signal via pg_ctl : pg_ctl -D data_dir stop

>  I use "killall -9 postmaster".

Do not do that.

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