Tom,
> It strikes me that the server shouldn't ever get a couple minutes behind
> on writing dirty buffers; this seems more like a bgwriter configuration
> issue than pg_ctl's fault. Consider that in a standard Unix
> configuration you will get about 20 seconds between SIGTERM and SIGKILL
> when init wants to shut you down ...
Well, I can run an actual timer if you like. But it's definitely more than
20 seconds. And we're using the default bgwriter config, perhaps I should
set it to 0?
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco