title: Restarting postgres
body: <p>Is there any danger running <code>/etc/init.d/postgresql restart</code>?? We just had an incident where some relations "disappeared" and I ran the said command. Just got bollocked by the sysadmin, however he did not justify why this was a bad thing to do. I did put the webapp in maintenance mode so there wasn't any transactions/ queries going on at the time.</p>
  
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  <p>Thanks guys... So in short it wont damage anything but it could loose lots of valuable diagnostic info.</p>