Re: Fwd: [ADMIN] Shutting down warm standby server? "

On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Glyn Astill wrote:

>  Hi people,
>
>  I've setup a warm standby reading WAL files, however when I try to
>  shut it down I get the message "server does not shut down".
>
>  Can someone help please, I presume it has something to do with the
>  server being busy waiting for the next WAL file? What is the
>  correct
>  way to shut down a server reading WALs?
>
>  The command line output is below:
>
>  postgres@way5c:/mnt/archive$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop -D
>  /data/postgres/ -m smart
>  waiting for server to shut
>  down...............................................................
>  failed
>  pg_ctl: server does not shut down
>
>
>  If I do a ps -ax:
>
>   7956 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D
>  /data/postgres/
>   7957 ?        Ss     0:10 postgres: startup process
>   7371 ?        S      0:00 /bin/bash /data/postgres/restore.sh
>  /mnt/archive/000000010000001A000000A8 pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG
>   1160 ?        S      0:00 sleep 1
>   1161 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps -ax
>
>  it looks like it's waiting for the next WAL file.

I've seen the same behavior with the '-m smart' option while in
standby recovery.  The '-m fast' option seems to work fine, though.

Erik Jones

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