From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: failure on 'pg_ctl stop' command |
Date: | 2007-10-11 17:03:51 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10710111003p1d0dc0b2k23c33ef77162fb6b@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10/11/07, Tena Sakai <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I had a failure on stopping postgres.
> The command I issued was:
> >> pg_ctl stop -m s
>
> and its response was:
> >> waiting for server to shut
> down...............................................................
> failed
> >> pg_ctl: server does not shut down
>
> I repeated the same command and the response was identical.
> I proceeded to issue:
> >> pg_ctl stop -m f
>
> and this time it came back with:
> >> waiting for server to shut down.... done
> >> server stopped
>
> Would somebody please tell me what this means?
> Is it indicative of some trouble? What can/Should
> I do to remedy the situation?
Normally this means that you have clients connected to the db while
it's trying to shut down.
On the server, run
ps ax|grep postgres
and look for a client connected in IDLE state.
You can either disconnect all the clients, or use -m f, which will
disconnect them for you.
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