killall -9 mysqld in init script ?

Hi,

I’m using percona-server-server-5.5 on Debian.

In the init script, if all else fails on a stop, it issues a “killall -9 mysqld” ; isn’t it a bit drastic ?

I know it’s issued only if nothing else worked (shutdown, SIGTERM) but still, wouldn’t it be better if it let the user handle the problem (and issue a kill -9 or whatever is needed) instead of doing it automatically as it may have severe consequences on the data ?

Thanks,

Thomas

The init script we ship is the same as the MySQL Enterprise one. In general I have never seen an init script I was happy with. But no one has paid for developing a better one, and it is not a trivial task to do right in my opinion. So it is still on the wishlist.