Re: pg_ctl configurable timeout

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble with the hardcoded 60 second timeout in pg_ctl. 
>>> pg_ctl sometimes just times out and there is no way to make it wait a
>>> little longer.  I would like to add an option to be able to change
>>> that, say pg_ctl -w --timeout=120.  Comments?
>> +1
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>> I played with 2GB shared buffers and stop action takes 10-20s. On system
>> with more memory 60s is not enough.
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> Huh? I have never seen this problem.
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It happened when I stop server after heavy performance test. I expected 
that postgres tries to check if there is not some dirty page in the 
buffer, but I did not investigate in it.
    Zdenek