On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 12:10 +0200, Yambu wrote: > Is there a clean way to shutdown postgres which completes transactions and does not abort them. > > I ran #systemctl stop postgresql-10 > > 2021-01-18 14:31:28.600 GMT [10594] LOG: received fast shutdown request > 2021-01-18 14:31:28.603 GMT [10594] LOG: aborting any active transactions > 2021-01-18 14:31:28.607 GMT [10594] LOG: worker process: logical replication launcher (PID 10604) exited with exit code 1 > 2021-01-18 14:31:28.613 GMT [10598] LOG: shutting down > 2021-01-18 14:31:28.634 GMT [23850] FATAL: the database system is shutting down > 2021-01-18 14:31:29.119 GMT [10594] LOG: database system is shut down Yes, that is the "smart" shutdown mode that will wait for all sessions to finish. Admitted, that's not the same as waiting for the end of the *transaction*, but it is the closest thing we have. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com