"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:00:03PM +0530, Mahesh Guleria wrote:
>> Use these commands :
>>
>> ps -ef|grep post
>> kill -9 [process id]
> No, no, a thousand times, no! Haven't you seen this appended to
> messages on the lists?
> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Actually, as of 7.1RC1 that issue is gone away; it's still not
considered good practice to kill -9 any postgres process, but
at least you can't shoot yourself in the foot that way anymore.
regards, tom lane