On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 07:09:14AM +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > Le 6 nov. 2014 21:59, "Mitchell Bösecke" <mitchell.bosecke@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit > : > > > > Hi, > > > > My understanding is that when postgresql is shutdown it triggers a checkpoint > which triggers the archiving of completed tx logs. Will the "pg_ctl stop" > command wait for archiving to complete or is the act of archiving completely > asynchronous from the shutdown process? > > > > Nope, it doesn't wait for archiving. Uh, are you sure about that? I thought we did wait during shutdown unless -W was used in pg_ctl stop. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin