User documentation on signal handling

Started by Gurjeet Singhover 16 years ago2 messages
#1Gurjeet Singh
singh.gurjeet@gmail.com

Hi All,

I just came across this page from 6.4 docs:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.4/static/signals.htm

Do we have any such doc in our current release? It sure is helpful from user
perspective to understand how Postgres responds to different signals; I just
saw another instance of kill -9 recommendation to kill a backend in the
field.

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Gurjeet Singh (#1)
Re: User documentation on signal handling

Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> writes:

I just came across this page from 6.4 docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.4/static/signals.htm

Do we have any such doc in our current release?

I don't think there's any table like that, but the Notes for the
postgres reference page
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/app-postgres.html
cover the same territory. I think we generally favor using pg_ctl
over manual signal sending, which may be why the table's gone.

regards, tom lane