Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:16:49PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: >> When you call pg_ctl --stop, the WAL is still writing out to the database >> and postmaster won't shut down until it's done, which can take a couple >> minutes.
> Is there any way for pg_ctl to detect a "server is shutting down" > message? Not sure what it'd do with it though ... It strikes me that the server shouldn't ever get a couple minutes behind on writing dirty buffers; this seems more like a bgwriter configuration issue than pg_ctl's fault. Consider that in a standard Unix configuration you will get about 20 seconds between SIGTERM and SIGKILL when init wants to shut you down ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])