Re: pg_ctl -m fast failing?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> So ... the workaround for 7.2.4 would be to have a server-side script hunt for
> idle connections after shutdown and kill -9 them?

Yuck.  I'd recommend back-porting the patch to 7.2 instead; should be
easy enough:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/commands/async.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92

Now, if you can reproduce the problem even with that patch in place, I'm
very interested in looking at the state of the system ...

            regards, tom lane