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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537581
Length 600 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Sudheer Kumar Meesala Sudheer Kumar Meesala
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Stopping the server safely and quickly


There are several modes to stop the server, depending on the level of urgency. We'll do a comparison in view of the effects in each mode.

How to do it…

We provide two variants: with and without systemd. This is similar to the previous recipe, Starting the database server manually, which we'll refer to for further information. For example, what is the exact name of the systemd service unit for a given database server on a given GNU/Linux distribution?

When using systemd, you can stop PostgreSQL using the fast mode by issuing the following after having replaced SERVICEUNIT with the appropriate systemd service unit name:

sudo systemctl stop SERVICEUNIT

If systemd is not available, and you are using Debian or Ubuntu, the command is as in the following example, which applies to the default version 11 instance:

pg_ctlcluster 11 main stop -m fast

The fast mode is the default since PostgreSQL 9.5; the previous default was to use the smart mode, meaning wait for all...

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