"Mona Gamboa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ;; Hi, ;; I'm new to PostgreSQL--have been using it for 3-4 months now. ;; I've been porting our Oracle DB and applications to PostgreSQL ;; and I am using the latest release 7.3. ;; ;; Anyway, when I do try to shutdown the postmaster with the ;; following command: ;; ;; pg_ctl -D /home/postgres/pgsql/DATA stop -m fast ;; ;; I get the following: ;; ;; waiting for postmaster to shut down.......................... ;; ...................................... failed ;; pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down ;; ;; Any ideas why this is happening? And what I can do to avoid this?
Hi Mona, Pg_ctl is a bash script. As such, you can read it in order to try and figure out what's going on. The default location, I believe, is /usr/local/bin. Peace, Petr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
