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Re: Option on `postgres` CLI to shutdown when there are no more active connections?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: David Barsky <me@davidbarsky.com>, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-10-16T22:22:07Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM David Barsky <me@davidbarsky.com> wrote:
>> Anyways, I'll try to get at what motivated this whole discussion: would
>> there be community opposition to adding a CLI flag that'd exit/shutdown all
>> Postgres processes once all pending connections close?

> I don't know about opposition, per se, but the onus is on you to provide a
> strong use case not already covered by existing tools.

In particular, it's not terribly clear why the existing "smart"
shutdown mode isn't sufficient.

			regards, tom lane