Re: it refuses to go down...

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   ???