Re: problem with kill script - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: problem with kill script
Date
Msg-id 200604182251.k3IMph206385@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: problem with kill script  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> julien <julien@nura.no-ip.com> writes:
> > The INSTALL file mention the command "kill `cat
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`" but the pid file contain the pid
> > but not only, it also contain data directory and some numbers (memory
> > usage ?, database characteristic ?)
>
> Hm, I wonder why this documentation isn't recommending "pg_ctl stop"
> instead.  runtime.sgml gets it right:
>
> <screen>
> $ <userinput>kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</userinput>
> </screen>
>
> but the text in installation.sgml seems much older.

The kill mention was below an item mentioning pg_ctl.  The paragraph was
in there for very old releases of PostgreSQL, pre-7.0.  I have removed
it with this patch.

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Index: doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.252
diff -c -c -r1.252 installation.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    5 Jan 2006 03:01:32 -0000    1.252
--- doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    18 Apr 2006 20:43:22 -0000
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*** 440,458 ****
  </screen>
       works.
      </para>
-
-     <para>
-      Very old versions might not have <application>pg_ctl</>.  If you
-      can't find it or it doesn't work, find out the process ID of the
-      old server, for example by typing
- <screen>
- <userinput>ps ax | grep postmaster</userinput>
- </screen>
-      and signal it to stop this way:
- <screen>
- <userinput>kill -INT <replaceable>processID</></userinput>
- </screen>
-     </para>
     </step>

     <step>
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