Re: problem with kill script

Tom Lane wrote:
> julien <julien(at)nura(dot)no-ip(dot)com> writes:
> > The INSTALL file mention the command "kill `cat
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`" but the pid file contain the pid
> > but not only, it also contain data directory and some numbers (memory
> > usage ?, database characteristic ?)
>
> Hm, I wonder why this documentation isn't recommending "pg_ctl stop"
> instead. runtime.sgml gets it right:
>
> <screen>
> $ <userinput>kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</userinput>
> </screen>
>
> but the text in installation.sgml seems much older.

The kill mention was below an item mentioning pg_ctl. The paragraph was
in there for very old releases of PostgreSQL, pre-7.0. I have removed
it with this patch.

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