Re: it refuses to go down...

Hi Scott,

> did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ???

I just did, and it worked.

$ pg_ctl stop -m immediate
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped

Many thanks.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 3:37 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I ran out of space over the weekend. /usr/local/ filled up.
> I got a new partition and about 1/2 done with copying the
> data from the filled-up partition. BTW, I am using postgres
> 8.3.0 on dell hardware/ redhat advanced server.
>
> I did:
> $ pg_ctl status
> pg_ctl: server is running (PID: 11148)
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
>
> and proceeded with:
>
> $ pg_ctl stop -m fast
> waiting for server to shut
> down............................................................... failed
> pg_ctl: server does not shut down

did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ???