On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I ran out of space over the weekend. /usr/local/ filled up.
> I got a new partition and about 1/2 done with copying the
> data from the filled-up partition. BTW, I am using postgres
> 8.3.0 on dell hardware/ redhat advanced server.
>
> I did:
> $ pg_ctl status
> pg_ctl: server is running (PID: 11148)
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
>
> and proceeded with:
>
> $ pg_ctl stop -m fast
> waiting for server to shut
> down............................................................... failed
> pg_ctl: server does not shut down
did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ???