Re: Default mode for shutdown

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

To: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-12-16T10:46:20Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 19:26, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> On 12/15/2010 03:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, and more to the point, do I want to finish whatever I was doing in
>> that window?  Fast-by-default is a nice hammer to swing, but one day
>> you'll pound your finger.
>
> Magnus pointed out that most distributions already use fast shutdown.
> So it seems most people are used to that hammer, no?

Typical users might not use "pg_ctl stop" directly. If they use "service"
or init.d commands, the default shutdown modes are probably fast mode.
It's also true in the service control on MS Windows.

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro