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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: David Barsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Option on `postgres` CLI to shutdown when there are no more active connections?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:22:07 -0400
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Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM David Barsky <[email protected]> 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






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