I've recently wanted to run a different archive_command during database shutdown than during normal operations. In particular, if the normal archive process fails during normal operations, I want it to be retried later (as it currently does). But if it fails during shutdown, I want it to run a fallback archive_command. The only way I can see to accomplish this is to have the archive_command try to connect back to the database and see if it gets an error. That seems pretty ugly. Is there a better way? Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general