Hi, I want to shut down the server under certain conditions that can be checked inside a backend process. For instance, while running symmetric replication, if the primary dies, I want the the walreceiver to detect that and shutdown the standby. The reason for shutdown is that I want to execute some other stuff before I start the standby as a primary. Creating a trigger file doesn't help as it converts the standby into primary at run time.
Using proc_exit() inside walreceiver only terminates the walreceiver process, which postgres starts again. The other way I see is using ereport(PANIC, ...). Is there some other way to shutdown the main server from within a backend process? Thanks.
