Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing) - Mailing list pgsql-general

>>>>> "SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:

SD> Do a shutdown -h on a live database machine with pg. It will
SD> gracefully shut itself down.


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.

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