Re: Restart time

From: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restart time
Date: 2006-12-06 06:20:30
Message-ID: a97c77030612052220r9450fh253f302b9b368b0d@mail.gmail.com
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On 12/6/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Startup time of a clean shutdown database is constant. But we still
> > face problem when it comes to shutting down. PostgreSQL waits
> > for clients to finish gracefully. till date i have never been able to
> > shutdown
> > quickly (web application scenerio) and i tend to do pg_ctl -m immediate
> stop
> > mostly.
>
> RTFM ... you should be using -m fast not -m immediate. -m immediate
> is for emergency situations not routine.

Thanks for correcting , -m fast works fine for me.
I shall RTFM..... :)
Regds
mallah. regards, tom lane

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