On 1/30/13 9:11 AM, MauMau wrote: > When I ran "pg_ctl stop -mi" against the primary, some applications > connected to the primary did not stop. The cause was that the backends > was deadlocked in quickdie() with some call stack like the following. > I'm sorry to have left the stack trace file on the testing machine, so > I'll show you the precise stack trace tomorrow.
I've had similar problems in the past: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1253704891.20834.8.ca...@fsopti579.f-secure.com The discussion there never quite concluded. But yes, you need to be prepared that in rare circumstances SIGQUIT won't succeed and you need to use SIGKILL. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
