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Re: Postmaster can't stop with pg_ctl



Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> takuya koide wrote:
>> 4) send 'SIGSTOP' signal to postgres

> If you "stop" a process by SIGSTOP you must make it run again with
> SIGCONT.  Otherwise it's just not processing signals, so it'll obviously
> not shut down.  I don't think this is a bug.

SIGSTOP is a debugging tool, which would be rendered nigh useless if the
postmaster tried to override it automatically.  So definitely NOTABUG
in my opinion too.

			regards, tom lane



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