> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > The connection was terminated.
> > And make the postmaster print out
> > The system is shutting down.
> > before it sends out the SIGTERM's.
>
> Unfortunately the postmaster is in no position to send any message to
> the individual clients.
>
> Maybe we should forget the idea of having a single message to cover
> both cases, and instead provide some flag in shared memory that the
> postmaster can set before it sends out SIGTERMs. Then the backends
> would actually know why they got a SIGTERM and could emit
> more-appropriate messages.
Seems like overkill to me. We could have the postmaster use SIGQUIT for
db shutdown and leave SIGKILL for admin shutdown of individual backends.
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