Re: Found this in the server log on MAC OSX

Tom Lane wrote:
>>StopService()
>>{
>>        ConsoleMessage "Stopping PostgreSQL database services"
>>        /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>>        x=`/bin/ps axc | /usr/bin/grep postgres`
>>        if /bin/test "$x"
>>        then
>>                set $x
>>                kill -9 $x
>>        fi
>>}
>
> Gack.  Whoever wrote this should be shot.  Take out everything after the
> "pg_ctl stop" line.  You might want to add "-m immediate" to the pg_ctl
> command as a less dangerous way of encouraging a fast shutdown...

BTW, I remember vaguely that the Cpanel 3 scripts (Cpanel is a
webhosting control panel product) used to do something like this for
every daemon... the horror...

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dave