-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/20/06 05:27, Andreas Seltenreich wrote: > 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. > `---- But it can't be fatal, can it? After all, that's what a system crash is, right? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFOK8XS9HxQb37XmcRAsUMAKCptETkgCvdbhaxyvqhCryYAo3GtgCfUmqt J41C6cs+rk7+h993Qh0pUMI= =OJsz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
