Re: Option on `postgres` CLI to shutdown when there are no more active connections?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM David Barsky <me(at)davidbarsky(dot)com> wrote:
> >> Anyways, I'll try to get at what motivated this whole discussion: would
> >> there be community opposition to adding a CLI flag that'd exit/shutdown
> all
> >> Postgres processes once all pending connections close?
>
> > I don't know about opposition, per se, but the onus is on you to provide
> a
> > strong use case not already covered by existing tools.
>
> In particular, it's not terribly clear why the existing "smart"
> shutdown mode isn't sufficient.
>

I think OP is saying "we don't run the tests from a shell prompt, so can't
run pg_ctl stop".

I think he might be able to, though, by having his IDE run a PowerShell
command that runs "pg_ctl stop -wt9999", and also create an error trap that
also runs that PS command.

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