On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 07:09:14AM +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > 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.
Uh, are you sure about that? I thought we did wait during shutdown unless -W was used in pg_ctl stop.
Sorry for the very very late reply. I just checked, and you're definitely right. In fast mode, we wait for the WAL to be archived, unless -W was used.
Sorry about this, and thanks for fixing my mistake.
