Re: problem with kill script

julien <julien@nura.no-ip.com> writes:
> The INSTALL file mention the command "kill `cat
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`" but the pid file contain the pid
> but not only, it also contain data directory and some numbers (memory
> usage ?, database characteristic ?)

Hm, I wonder why this documentation isn't recommending "pg_ctl stop"
instead.  runtime.sgml gets it right:

<screen>
$ <userinput>kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</userinput>
</screen>

but the text in installation.sgml seems much older.

            regards, tom lane