On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:14:21PM +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > 2014-12-06 14:26 GMT+01:00 Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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. > > > > Sorry for the very very late reply. I just checked, and you're definitely > right. In fast mode, we wait for the WAL to be archived, unless -W was used. > > Sorry about this, and thanks for fixing my mistake. No problem. Originally we didn't archive the last WAL file on shutdown but Simon fixed that a few years ago. -- 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
