Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 2. Why would you necessarily care to wait for shutdown? Startup I can
> see, but shutdown doesn't seem so important.
Well, maybe I'm the only one who has a script likepg_ctl -w stopcd ~/.../backend; make installbinpg_ctl start
but I got burnt regularly until I put -w in there ;-)
regards, tom lane