Hi all, I am on a Debian wheezy system with postgresql 9.1 installed. I have a hot standby configuration with the standby server doing the job of taking backups of the database. For this purpose I stop the database, start rsync, then start the DB again. This afternoon I did some tests and found that postgres did not stop as I expected using > /etc/init.d/postgresql stop so I tried > pg_ctlcluster --force 9.1 main stop Still without success, next: > pg_ctlcluster 9.1 main stop -- -m immediate Stopped the main postgres process but the writer process was still running: > ps -ef | grep postgres postgres 14228 14224 0 14:34 ? 00:00:03 postgres: writer process wegnet 28059 22011 0 12:48 pts/0 00:00:00 tail -f /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log Also pg_ctlcluster exit status was 0 which is not helpful in such a situation. One note: During all this the server was under heavy load recovering lots of wal files. Any ideas? Best, Juergen
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