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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
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Msg-id 200103060152.UAA18142@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > Thanks for the headsup, Tom.  Time to nix killproc and do something
> > cleaner -- compatible, but cleaner.
> 
> As far as I could tell from the 6.1 scripts, it would work to do
> 
>     killproc postmaster -TERM
> 

Yes, amazing it has a -9 default.

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