Re: Really really slow select count(*)

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 18:36, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
>> Yeah, current behavior with that shutdown option is the opposite of
>> smart for any production environment I've seen.  (I can see where it
>> would be handy in development, though.)  What's best in production
>> is the equivalent of the fast option with escalation to immediate if
>> necessary to ensure shutdown within the time limit.
>
> +1, we should call it "dumb" :)
>
> Not accepting new connections with "the database system is shutting
> down" makes it even worse -- it means you can't log in to the server
> to inspect who's querying it or call pg_terminate_backend() on them.
>
> I couldn't find any past discussions about changing the default to "fast".
> Are there any reasons why that cannot be done in a future release?

Or at least throw a hint the user's way that -m fast might be needed.