Re: postmaster stop hangs - Mailing list pgsql-admin

"Simpson" <asimpson@i-55.com> writes:
> Here is a ps of the currently running instance:

> postgres  5671     1  0 02:32 pts/0    00:00:00
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /data/pgsql/data
> postgres  5674  5671  0 02:32 pts/0    00:00:00 postgres: writer process
> postgres  5675  5671  0 02:32 pts/0    00:00:00 postgres: stats buffer
> process
> postgres  5676  5675  0 02:32 pts/0    00:00:00 postgres: stats collector
> process

> 5676 is in the */data/postmaster.pid

That seems extremely broken.  Can you reproduce this state (wrong PID in
postmaster.pid) after restarting the postmaster?

            regards, tom lane