Thread: kill-9 postmaster

kill-9 postmaster

From
"Moginraj Mohandas"
Date:
Hey,
          What is the best way to stop the database. I use "killall -9 postmaster".
Mogin

Re: kill-9 postmaster

From
Devrim GUNDUZ
Date:
Hi,

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:17 -0600, Moginraj Mohandas wrote:

>  What is the best way to stop the database.

Send termination signal via pg_ctl : pg_ctl -D data_dir stop

>  I use "killall -9 postmaster".

Do not do that.

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