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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Option on `postgres` CLI to shutdown when there are no more active connections?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:27:17 -0400
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM David Barsky <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]

> 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? E.g., something similar to
> SQL
> Server's `auto_close` in the vein of `postgres
> -c "auto_close_after=100"` or `pg-ctl start --exit-mode=smart`?
>

If testing is all scripted, then why not put "pg_ctl stop" at the end of
the script?

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