Indeed, from the pg_ctl man pages:
``Immediate'' mode will abort all server processes without a clean
shutdown. This will lead to a recovery run on restart.
Regards,
Guido Barosio
On 3/14/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:05, Guido Barosio wrote:
> > Hi Cory,
> >
> > Actually it seems that the database wasn't shut down properly, and
> > while it was doing the recovery, it refused connections. Expected and
> > what needs to happen, indeed.
> >
> > That's why if you are a client about to connect, you'll recieve the "
> > FATAL ...database is starting up " message.
> >
> > Ideally, you (the dba) should let the server end this task (the
> > recovery). AFAIK, the recovery started as a consecuence of dirty data
> > somewere, probably a big transaction not comitted when the server went
> > off.
> >
> > Are you aware of a shutdown prior to this messages?
> >
> > Nothing to do with your current issue, but you will receive comments
> > related with your pgsql version if you are not using a pgsql 8 :)
>
> As mentioned, this is normal operation.
>
> Note that the command:
>
> pg_ctl -m immediate stop
>
> will cause a recovery. It's pretty much a functional equivalent of
> senting kill -9 to all backends and the postmaster at once. Brutal but
> effective.
>
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