Re: problem (bug?) when killing client program

Yes, I sent a SIGTERM...

Anyway, the fact that a postgres process was alive & kicking & eating
CPU power after pg_dump exited is a normal behaviour?

Best regards.

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>
> SIGTERM should have been fine.  Are you certain you didn't do kill -9 ?
>
> I tried the same thing here, and the backend shut down just fine, with
> only this entry in the postmaster log:
>     FATAL:  terminating connection due to administrator command
> So I think you didn't really do SIGTERM.
>
>             regards, tom lane