On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 4:24 PM Christoph Berg <m...@debian.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. -- Bharath Rupireddy RDS Open Source Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/