Server won't shutdown: Currently, we are running 7.3.2. However, we have had this problem since 7.1.
Our production server has dozens of connections from different persistent applications (some web, some runnning on other systems). When I do a shutdown: $pgpath/bin/pg_ctl -D $datadir -m fast stop the server will not completely shutdown. I realize that the pg_ctl script will send a -QUIT to the postmaster process, which will then also send some kind of quit signal to the outstanding backends?, but, every time, some of the postgres backend processes will not quit and the server "hangs" in shutdown mode. To get around this, I send a -QUIT is sent to a backend process that is not doing any activity and then the server comes down (and not in a good way I'm sure). Can anyone explain *why* the server won't shutdown as well as suggest the *best* way to handle this situation? Thanks, -- Laurette Cisneros, L.D. The Database Group (510) 420-3137 NextBus Information Systems, Inc. www.nextbus.com ---------------------------------- "No man is wise enough by himself" -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 Bc - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus ---------------------------(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
