Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > we could really do better than just wonder whether our signal to > shutdown was received or not. There probably should be a quite short > timeout for the server to change status, and then a much longer one for > that shutdown to finish. While I don't want to just raise the timeout, I could get behind a more thorough rethinking of the behavior there. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general