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

 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.





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