On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:41:35AM -0700, Ed L. wrote: > Question: Am I doing all I can to avoid corruption with the > following procedure to shutdown a 7.4.6 cluster with a hung > postmaster? Suggestions? What is the state of the processes in ps? D, S, R, ?? That should at least give a hint as to what it *is* doing... > 1. SIGTERM non-postmaster processes > 2. SIGINT non-postmasters > 3. SIGQUIT non-postmaster > 4. SIGTERM postmaster > 5. SIGINT postmaster > 6. SIGQUIT postmaster > 7. SIGKILL postmaster The options you can give to pg_ctl should cover all the possibilities... There's also a page in the docs as to what each process does with each signal... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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