> I think it is a timing issue. The PG has no way to notify the OS that
> it has finished exiting, so if it takes a long time to exit, the OS
> will ungracefully kill the DB process(es). Doesn't matter what DB (or
> any other application) you're running, you *can* lose data this way.
No, writet-ahead logs prevent problems in this way.
Jon
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