On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 11:22 -0400, Ray Stell wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:06:48AM -0400, Ray Stell wrote: > > > > So, you are saying just shutdown, but it is my experience that this might not > > work and I need to script this for the operator to do the maintenance. > > > Could not get the standby to go down without flags, which makes me > nervous since Robert seems to indicate that it should. I tried "-m f" > and this seemed to work. I'm able to restart recovery. I suppose > there might still be some timing issues with xlogs deletion waiting to > blow my foot off. > What version of PostgreSQL is this? 8.2+ should shut down proper without issue. 8.1 does have issues. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin