RE: Switch pg_ctl's default about waiting? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: Switch pg_ctl's default about waiting?
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Msg-id 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A234D31DC@sectorbase1.sectorbase.com
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In response to Switch pg_ctl's default about waiting?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Now that the postmaster takes a noticeable amount of time to 
> shut down, I'm wondering if pg_ctl's default about whether or not
> to wait ought to be reversed.  That is, "-w" would become the norm,
> and some new switch ("-n" maybe) would be needed if you didn't want
> it to wait.
> 
> Comments?

Agreed.

Actually, without -m f|i flag to pg_ctl and with active sessions 7.0.X
postmaster shuts down long time too.

Vadim


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