Postgres will not shutdown? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Carol Walter
Subject Postgres will not shutdown?
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Msg-id A9B30AAD-3ABD-40A1-B7E6-4B41FDB1F89A@indiana.edu
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Responses Re: Postgres will not shutdown?  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Hello,

I've had a number of problems with Postgres in passed few days.
First ,I had an issue with a corrupt index.  One solution required
that I stop and start postgres so it would read the postgresql.conf
file.  It looked like it was stopping but it wasn't.  I finally had
to kill the processes.  The problem was that postgres didn't thing
the pg_ctl was running.  Then I realized I had not set the parameter
that I needed to set quite high enough so I had to stop and restart
it again.  It didn't stop again but this time I got the following
message:

# /etc/init.d/cswpostgres stop
Stopping PostgreSQL database...
waiting for server to shut
down...............................................................
failed
pg_ctl: server does not shut down

Can anyone help unravel this?

Thanks in advance,

Carol

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