On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:35 -0400, Carol Walter wrote: > Oh, yes. I have restarted it several times - or at least I thought > that I did. Actually, it's not stopping. I grepped for "post" after > I did the stop and it is still running. I really don't like the idea > of issuing the kill command on the database processes. Is there > another option? > pg_ctl -D /path/to/data/dir -m fast stop Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake