On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 18:36, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, current behavior with that shutdown option is the opposite of > smart for any production environment I've seen. Â(I can see where it > would be handy in development, though.) ÂWhat's best in production > is the equivalent of the fast option with escalation to immediate if > necessary to ensure shutdown within the time limit. +1, we should call it "dumb" :) Not accepting new connections with "the database system is shutting down" makes it even worse -- it means you can't log in to the server to inspect who's querying it or call pg_terminate_backend() on them. I couldn't find any past discussions about changing the default to "fast". Are there any reasons why that cannot be done in a future release? Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
