Re: Postmaster can't stop with pg_ctl

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> takuya koide wrote:
>> 4) send 'SIGSTOP' signal to postgres

> If you "stop" a process by SIGSTOP you must make it run again with
> SIGCONT.  Otherwise it's just not processing signals, so it'll obviously
> not shut down.  I don't think this is a bug.

SIGSTOP is a debugging tool, which would be rendered nigh useless if the
postmaster tried to override it automatically.  So definitely NOTABUG
in my opinion too.

            regards, tom lane