Sure. I will attempt this on our development server which only occasionally has this problem. If that won't reproduce it, I will attempt this on our production server but that must be scheduled at a slow time - maybe Monday.
I'll send this info. once I've collected it. Thanks for the help, L. On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Laurette Cisneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I do a shutdown: > > $pgpath/bin/pg_ctl -D $datadir -m fast stop > > the server will not completely shutdown. > > Hm. -m fast tells the postmaster to send SIGTERM to all the existing > backends, and then quit when all the backends have quit. So your > problem is that one or more backend processes isn't exiting in a timely > fashion after receiving SIGTERM. It would be useful to see what these > backends are doing. Can you attach to each one with gdb and get a stack > trace? > > regards, tom lane > -- Laurette Cisneros, L.D. The Database Group (510) 420-3137 NextBus Information Systems, Inc. www.nextbus.com ---------------------------------- "No man is wise enough by himself" -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 Bc - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])