I am replicating one set of tables between a 74 and an 80b2 installation.

So, I screwed up my pg (80) installation and needed to bounce it.
It would not shutdown with pg_ctl stop, probably because of
the slon processes. (There were no open psql sessions, etc.)

I kill -TERM'd the slon processes for that (80) installation and still
could not shut down postmaster with pg_ctl. So I kill -TERM'd the
slon processes for the 2nd installation (74) and then the 80 postmaster
died *without* a pg_ctl stop.  The 74 installation is alive and
assumed well.

Did I just not wait long enough?

In either case, what is the dependency here?  
What is the proper order of events for stopping sets of slon processes
and shutting down postgres?

(I can get it back up and running just fine. I just need to know
the proper order of things.)

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