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To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Restart time 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:39:50 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com> writes:
> Startup time of a clean shutdown database is constant. But we still
> face problem when it comes to shutting down. PostgreSQL waits
> for clients to finish gracefully. till date i have never been able to
> shutdown
> quickly (web application scenerio) and i tend to do pg_ctl -m immediate stop
> mostly.

RTFM ... you should be using -m fast not -m immediate.  -m immediate
is for emergency situations not routine.

			regards, tom lane