>>>>> "SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:
SD> Do a shutdown -h on a live database machine with pg. It will
SD> gracefully shut itself down.
I think it is a timing issue. The PG has no way to notify the OS that
it has finished exiting, so if it takes a long time to exit, the OS
will ungracefully kill the DB process(es). Doesn't matter what DB (or
any other application) you're running, you *can* lose data this way.
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