Re: [GENERAL] Unable to get postgres running after long time no vacuum

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sure, but those who do know how to SIGQUIT might reach for that before
>> they reach for control-D. There's hardly anyone out there who could
>> be called an experienced user of the standalone mode, I think, and so
>> we shouldn't assume that users always know control-D is the way out.

> I agree completely, but is that an argument _against_ a "quit" command?

No, it's orthogonal to whether we want a "quit" command. (My opinion is
not, because what the heck will we do with it in multiuser mode? And
there is no good way to shoehorn it into just the single-user mode, it'd
have to be a grammar entry.)

regards, tom lane