Re: pg_receivewal and SIGTERM

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
TBH, I'd rather remove the parentheses part. It sounds too much like
"it works that way because that way is the sane way".

Christoph