features crash
recovery that restores the state of committed transactions in the event that
the database exits unexpectedly, for example during a power failure. The
recovery processing happens the next time the database is started after the
unexpected exit. Your application can reduce the amount of work that the
database has to do to start up the next time by shutting it down in an orderly
fashion. See "Shutting down
or an individual
database" in the .
The utilities all
perform an orderly shutdown.