Thread: postmaster does not shut down

What should I do?  I have
a number of backends hanging
around from some bad sessions
and I know that no one is
connected.

I did

$ pg_ctl stop.

$ pg_ctl stop -m f

does the trick

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:29:06PM -0400, newsreader@mediaone.net wrote:
> What should I do?  I have
> a number of backends hanging
> around from some bad sessions
> and I know that no one is
> connected.
>
> I did
>
> $ pg_ctl stop.
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

newsreader@mediaone.net writes:

> What should I do?  I have
> a number of backends hanging
> around from some bad sessions
> and I know that no one is
> connected.
>
> I did
>
> $ pg_ctl stop.

pg_ctl stop -m fast

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