Harpreet Dhaliwal writes: > Its always said that don't kill -9 postmaster. > Whats the reason not to do it. Why is it so strictly prohibited? ,----[ <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/postmaster-shutdown.html#AEN18182> ] | It is best not to use SIGKILL to shut down the server. Doing so will | prevent the server from releasing shared memory and semaphores, | which may then have to be done manually before a new server can be | started. Furthermore, SIGKILL kills the postmaster process without | letting it relay the signal to its subprocesses, so it will be | necessary to kill the individual subprocesses by hand as well. `---- regards, andreas
