Am Donnerstag, den 27.01.2011, 12:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Momjian: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > My initial reaction is that something is wrong with your system, either > > > the I/O or the way it is being shutdown by the script. ?I would start to > > > look in the script and do some pg_ctl tests starting/stopping the > > > server. > > > > It could be that his application or whatever is making connections > > while he's trying to do this. An open connection that's actually > > doing something will stop a normal shutdown. > > > > Is there a reason the pg upgrade script does not use -m fast? > > Uh, well, I assume that the person has already shut down all db > connections, and opened it only for super-users. If the system is not > shutting down, that should signal to the user that they have not locked > down the system properly. We would not want someone to connect during > pg_upgrade processing, and doing -m fast is not going to help with that. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + It's impossible for everything to be true. + > Hi, well, i shut down every client connection that could occur, but with a ps auxf i get following output: postgres 26255 0.0 0.0 426396 2044 ? Ss 14:21 0:00 \_ postgres: writer process postgres 26257 0.0 0.0 154368 1616 ? Ss 14:21 0:00 \_ postgres: stats collector process postgres 26258 0.0 0.1 427612 4188 ? Ss 14:21 0:00 \_ postgres: grepo DB_NAME LOCAL_IP(PORT) idle so there are some connections, but as far as i can say, nothing from a client program, these connections belong to postgres itself??!? is that possible? pg_upgrade has to check the tables anyway, so there must be this connection, or am i wrong?!? greetz -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin