Many thanks, Scott.
Tena Sakai
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 10/11/2007 10:03 AM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] failure on 'pg_ctl stop' command
On 10/11/07, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I had a failure on stopping postgres.
> The command I issued was:
> >> pg_ctl stop -m s
>
> and its response was:
> >> waiting for server to shut
> down...............................................................
> failed
> >> pg_ctl: server does not shut down
>
> I repeated the same command and the response was identical.
> I proceeded to issue:
> >> pg_ctl stop -m f
>
> and this time it came back with:
> >> waiting for server to shut down.... done
> >> server stopped
>
> Would somebody please tell me what this means?
> Is it indicative of some trouble? What can/Should
> I do to remedy the situation?
Normally this means that you have clients connected to the db while
it's trying to shut down.
On the server, run
ps ax|grep postgres
and look for a client connected in IDLE state.
You can either disconnect all the clients, or use -m f, which will
disconnect them for you.