Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Remembers Tip 1: Don't kill -9 the postmaster... Hmm 2 and 15 don't do anything..
How about SIGQUIT (if you didn't use -9 already)?
I've been staring at the logic in postmaster.c and I don't see how it
could fail to quit when Shutdown is nonzero and there aren't any
children left... maybe the signal is being held off for some weird
reason?
regards, tom lane