Thread: auto stop postmaster on cygwin

i use postgresql 7.3 on cygwin on windows xp home.
i have found somebody suggestion to start pg process as service on XP.
i try and succesful on start as service , and auto start when start
PC.
but i must manually stop the postmaster before i shutdown or restart
PC.
if not the file postmaster.pid will left in /var/pgdata, then auto
start will fail.

1st question is : how to make postmaster process auto stop when
shutdown or restart PC?
2nd question is : if i forget to stop process , will have any problem
or not?

thank you

somphong s.

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:40, somphong s. wrote:
> i use postgresql 7.3 on cygwin on windows xp home.
> i have found somebody suggestion to start pg process as service on XP.
> i try and succesful on start as service , and auto start when start
> PC.
> but i must manually stop the postmaster before i shutdown or restart
> PC.

Why? Is XP broken now?

On Win2K, you simply set the service to be "automatic" and it would
start at boot and stop at shutdown.

Could be a problem of Windows XP Home. Microsoft has purposefully
crippled XP Home in a number of ways and it wouldn't surprise me if
services aren't really stopped at shutdown anymore.

> 2nd question is : if i forget to stop process , will have any problem
> or not?

Odds are better that you will have problems if you don't stop the
process properly. Get the service-stopping working.

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Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect