Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-27 Thread Tena Sakai
Many thanks, Peter. Regards, Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Peter Koczan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 3/27/2008 2:59 PM To: Tena Sakai Cc: Scott Marlowe; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down... > > I had to dea

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Koczan
> > I had to deal with this recently where the > > status was "notify interrupt" > > Is this a response from "pg_ctl status" command? I'm referring to the last field of "ps ax". For instance, this line... >13841 ?Rs 234:32 postgres: gadb canon 127.0.0.1(44837) SELECT would have

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-25 Thread Tena Sakai
Tue 3/25/2008 10:59 AM To: Tena Sakai Cc: Scott Marlowe; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down... > > did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ??? > > I just did, and it worked. > >$ pg_ctl stop -m immediate >waiting for server to shut do

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-25 Thread Peter Koczan
> > did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ??? > > I just did, and it worked. > >$ pg_ctl stop -m immediate >waiting for server to shut down done >server stopped I'd be careful about shutting down using "immediate" mode. It forces the database into recovery mode. Your problem co

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread Tena Sakai
AIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 3:37 PM To: Tena Sakai Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down... On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > I ran out of space over the weekend. /usr/local/ fill

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread Tena Sakai
l.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down... "Tena Sakai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ pg_ctl stop -m fast > waiting for server to shut > down... failed > pg_ctl: server does not shut down Have

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > I ran out of space over the weekend. /usr/local/ filled up. > I got a new partition and about 1/2 done with copying the > data from the filled-up partition. BTW, I am using postgres > 8.3.0 on dell ha

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread salman
That's what she said. Someone had to do it. That's what she said, again. Sorry. -salman - Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
"Tena Sakai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ pg_ctl stop -m fast > waiting for server to shut > down... failed > pg_ctl: server does not shut down Have you looked into the postmaster log to see *why* it's not shutting down? > Can

[ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-24 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Everybody, I ran out of space over the weekend. /usr/local/ filled up. I got a new partition and about 1/2 done with copying the data from the filled-up partition. BTW, I am using postgres 8.3.0 on dell hardware/ redhat advanced server. I did: $ pg_ctl status pg_ctl: server is running (P