Re: backend hangs at immediate shutdown (Re: Back-branch update releases coming in a couple weeks) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Actually, I think it would be cleaner to have a new state in pmState,
namely PM_IMMED_SHUTDOWN which is entered when we send SIGQUIT.  When
we're in this state, postmaster is only waiting for the timeout to
expire; and when it does, it sends SIGKILL and exits.  Pretty much the
same you have, except that instead of checking AbortStartTime we check
the pmState variable.

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