Re: indexes no longer used after shutdown during reindexing

Matt Dew <mattd@consistentstate.com> writes:
> An interesting sidenote we realized.  the nice system shutdown script
> /etc/init.d/postgres doesn't actually wait for the db to be down, it
> just waits for pg_ctl to return.

By default, "pg_ctl stop" does wait for the server to shut down ...

            regards, tom lane