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Subject: Re: Option on `postgres` CLI to shutdown when there are no more active connections?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:53:45 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
I think OP is saying "we don't run the tests from a shell prompt, so can't
run pg_ctl stop".
I think he might be able to, though, by having his IDE run a PowerShell
command that runs "pg_ctl stop -wt9999", and also create an error trap that
also runs that PS command.
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