From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: How to shoot yourself in the foot: kill -9 postmaster |
Date: | 2001-03-06 01:52:13 |
Message-ID: | 200103060152.UAA18122@candle.pha.pa.us |
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killproc should send a kill -15 to the process, wait a few seconds for
it to exit. If it does not, try kill -1, and if that doesn't kill it,
then kill -9.
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > checkpoint record. Clueless admins who resort to kill -9 as a routine
> > admin tool *will* lose their databases. Moreover, the init scripts
> > that are running around now are dangerous weapons if used with 7.1.
>
> Thanks for the headsup, Tom. Time to nix killproc and do something
> cleaner -- compatible, but cleaner. I'll have to research what the
> defaults are for later RH's -- but, as 6.1 is one of my target platforms
> at this time, I have to fix that issue for sure.
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> Lamar Owen
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