Tom Lane wrote:
>>StopService()
>>{
>> ConsoleMessage "Stopping PostgreSQL database services"
>> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> x=`/bin/ps axc | /usr/bin/grep postgres`
>> if /bin/test "$x"
>> then
>> set $x
>> kill -9 $x
>> fi
>>}
>
> Gack. Whoever wrote this should be shot. Take out everything after the
> "pg_ctl stop" line. You might want to add "-m immediate" to the pg_ctl
> command as a less dangerous way of encouraging a fast shutdown...
BTW, I remember vaguely that the Cpanel 3 scripts (Cpanel is a
webhosting control panel product) used to do something like this for
every daemon... the horror...
--
dave
