There are several ways to shut down the database server. You control the type of shutdown by sending different signals to the master postgres process. This is the Smart Shutdown mode. After receiving ...
The most commonly used signal with kill is SIGTERM (signal 15), which requests a graceful termination. If a process does not respond to SIGTERM, SIGKILL (signal 9) can be used to forcefully terminate ...
There are several ways to shut down the database server. Under the hood, they all reduce to sending a signal to the supervisor postgres process. If you are using a pre-packaged version of PostgreSQL, ...