Re: Shutting down server from a backend process, e.g. walrceiver

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 AM, fazool mein <fazoolmein@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I'll be modifying the code. In the walreceiver, I used the following to
> send a shutdown to the postmaster:
>
> kill(getppid(), SIGTERM);

You can use the global variable "PostmasterPid" instead of getppid.
There are three types of shutdown. SIGTERM triggers smart shutdown.
Smart shutdown is suitable for your case? If not, you might need to
send SIGINT or SIGQUIT instead.

Regards,

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