Cedric Berger wrote:
>
> I tried to stop postgress using: 'su - postgres -c "pg_ctl stop -swm
> fast"'
> but that function never returns. Even kill -9 couldn't stop the process.
>
> This looks like a Solaris bug firstly, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
Yeah, that sounds like it's stuck in the kernel.
cheers
andrew