On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Michael Banck <michael.ba...@credativ.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > we have seen repeatedly that users can be confused about why PostgreSQL > is not shutting down even though they requested it. Usually, this is > because `log_checkpoints' is not enabled and the final checkpoint is > being written, delaying shutdown. As no message besides "shutting down" > is written to the server log in this case, we even had users believing > the server was hanging and pondering killing it manually. > Wouldn't a better place to write this message be the terminal from which "pg_ctl stop" was invoked, rather than the server log file? Cheers, Jeff