Re: Default mode for shutdown - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Default mode for shutdown
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Msg-id 5178.1292424428@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Default mode for shutdown  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Default mode for shutdown  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: Default mode for shutdown  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Default mode for shutdown  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Really? �Personally I'm quite happy with that default.

> Why?  It seems to me that just leads to, oh, gee, the database isn't
> shutting down, where's the window where I failed to exit a session?

Yeah, and more to the point, do I want to finish whatever I was doing in
that window?  Fast-by-default is a nice hammer to swing, but one day
you'll pound your finger.
        regards, tom lane


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