Re: Does "pg_ctl stop" wait for archiving to complete? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Does "pg_ctl stop" wait for archiving to complete?
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In response to Does "pg_ctl stop" wait for archiving to complete?  (Mitchell Bösecke <mitchell.bosecke@forcorp.com>)
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Le 6 nov. 2014 21:59, "Mitchell Bösecke" <mitchell.bosecke@forcorp.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> My understanding is that when postgresql is shutdown it triggers a checkpoint which triggers the archiving of completed tx logs. Will the "pg_ctl stop" command wait for archiving to complete or is the act of archiving completely asynchronous from the shutdown process?
>

Nope, it doesn't wait for archiving.

> In my case, I WANT the pg_ctl command to hang until all files are archived because immediately after I issue "pg_ctl stop" I want to be able to unmount the disk that the archived logs are being copied to.
>
> Thanks for any information,
>
> Mitchell
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