David Mitchell wrote:
> What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found
> that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to
> actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has
> failed to stop). This is the same even if we use -m immediate.
AFAIK pg_ctl just signals the backend (as you can do with kill). Are you
saying it never exits, or just that pg_ctl stops waiting for it to finish?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
