pg_ctl: Server Does Not Shut Down – Force Postgres to Shutdown
You might see the following when issuing the normal stop command to postgres via pg_ctl. -bash-3.1$ pg_ctl stop waiting for server to shut down……………………………………………………… failed pg_ctl: server does not shut down Sometimes postgres does not want to shutdown by just issuing a pg_ctl stop as the postgres user. User might feel the need to “kill…