Yes, I sent a SIGTERM...
Anyway, the fact that a postgres process was alive & kicking & eating
CPU power after pg_dump exited is a normal behaviour?
Best regards.
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> SIGTERM should have been fine. Are you certain you didn't do kill -9 ?
>
> I tried the same thing here, and the backend shut down just fine, with
> only this entry in the postmaster log:
> FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
> So I think you didn't really do SIGTERM.
>
> regards, tom lane