Re: pg_receivewal and SIGTERM

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 4:24 PM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Re: Bharath Rupireddy
> > <application>pg_receivewal</application> will exit with status 0 when
> > - terminated by the <systemitem>SIGINT</systemitem> signal. (That is the
> > + terminated by the <systemitem>SIGINT</systemitem> or
> > + <systemitem>SIGTERM</systemitem> signal. (That is the
> > normal way to end it. Hence it is not an error.) For fatal errors or
> > other signals, the exit status will be nonzero.
> >
> > Can we specify the reason in the docs why a SIGTERM causes (which
> > typically would cause a program to end with non-zero exit code)
> > pg_receivewal and pg_recvlogical exit with zero exit code? Having this
> > in the commit message would help developers but the documentation will
> > help users out there.
>
> We could add "because you want that if it's running as a daemon", but

+1 to add "some" info in the docs (I'm not sure about the better
wording though), we can try to be more specific of the use case if
required.

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Bharath Rupireddy
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