Re: Problems shutting down Postmaster

Andrew Edson <cheighlund@yahoo.com> writes:
>   Someone else added the IP address for the other system to the
>   pg_hba.conf file later, but since we had already started postgres by
>   then, it didn't take.

You don't need to shut down the server to adjust pg_hba.conf ... just
"pg_ctl reload".

> And now, for some reason, postgres doesn't seem to want to let me shut
> down.

A standard shutdown doesn't finish until all existing sessions exit of
their own accord.  Perhaps you wanted "-m fast"?

            regards, tom lane