On 12/5/06, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Sir,
Startup time of a clean shutdown database is constant. But we still
face problem when it comes to shutting down. PostgreSQL waits
for clients to finish gracefully. till date i have never been able to shutdown
quickly (web application scenerio) and i tend to do pg_ctl -m immediate stop
mostly.
Jean Arnaud <Jean.Arnaud@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Is there a relation between database size and PostGreSQL restart duration ?
No.
> Does anyone now the behavior of restart time ?
It depends on how many updates were applied since the last checkpoint
before the crash.
If you're talking about startup of a cleanly-shut-down database, it
should be pretty much constant time.
Dear Sir,
Startup time of a clean shutdown database is constant. But we still
face problem when it comes to shutting down. PostgreSQL waits
for clients to finish gracefully. till date i have never been able to shutdown
quickly (web application scenerio) and i tend to do pg_ctl -m immediate stop
mostly.
regards, tom lane
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