Le 6 nov. 2014 21:59, "Mitchell Bösecke" <mitchell.bosecke@forcorp.com> a écrit :
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> Hi,
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> My understanding is that when postgresql is shutdown it triggers a checkpoint which triggers the archiving of completed tx logs. Will the "pg_ctl stop" command wait for archiving to complete or is the act of archiving completely asynchronous from the shutdown process?
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Nope, it doesn't wait for archiving.
> In my case, I WANT the pg_ctl command to hang until all files are archived because immediately after I issue "pg_ctl stop" I want to be able to unmount the disk that the archived logs are being copied to.
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> Thanks for any information,
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> Mitchell
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