Hello, Is it possible in 7.1.3 to send the postmaster a signal that would cause it to send a SIGTERM to all it's children, but wouldn't cause the postmaster to exit?
You used to be able to do this back in 6.5.2 with SIGQUIT, but the docs only seem to indicate that you can only cause the postmaster to exit along with it's children in 7.1.3. I presume this was removed for a good reason... I have a problem with waiting processes, especially during vacuums and i'd like to use a script to just kill off all the children when this occures. Do I have to kill the children manually, or is using pg_ctl to restart the postmaster a better idea? Thanks, Trevor ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
