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.