On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 07:00:59PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have not re-ordered the shutdown method options because I am trying to
> > keep the list logical, from least to most severe, so "smart" is still
> > listed first. It is odd t
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have not re-ordered the shutdown method options because I am trying to
> keep the list logical, from least to most severe, so "smart" is still
> listed first. It is odd that the default is the middle option, but I
> don't see any other ide
We originally chose "smart" as the default pg_ctl shutdown method
because it was the least disruptive, but experience has shown that it is
too polite, so the current default is inconvenient.
We have discussed changing the default shutdown mode to "fast", and 9.5
might be the release where we do th
