On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes: > To add insult to injury, when v10 pg_ctl does restart a pre-10 server and > it sits there for a long time waiting for it to start up even though it has > already started up, if I hit ctrl-C because I assume something is horribly > wrong, it then goes ahead and kills the successfully started-and-running > server.
Really? The server should have detached itself from your terminal group long before that. What platform is this?
CentOS release 6.9 (Final)
The sever log file (9.6) says:
64926 2017-09-26 13:56:38.284 PDT LOG: database system was shut down at 2017-09-26 13:56:37 PDT
64926 2017-09-26 13:56:38.299 PDT LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
64930 2017-09-26 13:56:38.311 PDT LOG: autovacuum launcher started
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:38.313 PDT LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
... hit ctrl-C
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:47.237 PDT LOG: received fast shutdown request
64924 2017-09-26 13:56:47.237 PDT LOG: aborting any active transactions
64930 2017-09-26 13:56:47.244 PDT LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
64927 2017-09-26 13:56:47.261 PDT LOG: shutting down
...
I can try a different platform (ubuntu 16.04, probably) tonight and see if it does the same thing.