Re: Shutting down server from a backend process, e.g. walrceiver

Thanks for the tips.

In our case, SIGINT makes more sense. I'll use that.

Regards

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 AM, fazool mein <fazoolmein(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yes, I'll be modifying the code. In the walreceiver, I used the following
> to
> > send a shutdown to the postmaster:
> >
> > kill(getppid(), SIGTERM);
>
> You can use the global variable "PostmasterPid" instead of getppid.
> There are three types of shutdown. SIGTERM triggers smart shutdown.
> Smart shutdown is suitable for your case? If not, you might need to
> send SIGINT or SIGQUIT instead.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Fujii Masao
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