Thanks for the tips. In our case, SIGINT makes more sense. I'll use that.
Regards On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 AM, fazool mein <fazoolm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I'll be modifying the code. In the walreceiver, I used the following > to > > send a shutdown to the postmaster: > > > > kill(getppid(), SIGTERM); > > You can use the global variable "PostmasterPid" instead of getppid. > There are three types of shutdown. SIGTERM triggers smart shutdown. > Smart shutdown is suitable for your case? If not, you might need to > send SIGINT or SIGQUIT instead. > > Regards, > > -- > Fujii Masao > NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION > NTT Open Source Software Center >