Tom, > It strikes me that the server shouldn't ever get a couple minutes behind > on writing dirty buffers; this seems more like a bgwriter configuration > issue than pg_ctl's fault. Consider that in a standard Unix > configuration you will get about 20 seconds between SIGTERM and SIGKILL > when init wants to shut you down ...
Well, I can run an actual timer if you like. But it's definitely more than 20 seconds. And we're using the default bgwriter config, perhaps I should set it to 0? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org