Re: server won't shutdown

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 <laurette@nextbus.com> 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
>

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