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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster
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Msg-id 28732.983843741@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster  (ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers))
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> killproc should send a kill -15 to the process, wait a few seconds for
> it to exit.  If it does not, try kill -1, and if that doesn't kill it,
> then kill -9.

Tell it to the Linux people ... this is their boot-script code we're
talking about.
        regards, tom lane

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