Re: [HACKERS] Why does logical replication launcher exit with exitcode 1?

On 2017-08-02 17:09:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Even if we fix that, though, I think it is reasonable to downgrade it to
> DEBUG1.  We did that already for other standard background processes such
> as the autovac launcher, and it's not apparent to me why the logrep
> launcher should be chattier.  Now, *unexpected* starts or stops should
> certainly deserve a higher log rating ... but the general rule ought to be
> that totally-expected behavior does not deserve a log entry by default.

Well, every exit *other* than during a shutdown is unexpected.  That's
why I suggested changing the log level for exit code 1 depending on the
cluster being shut down or not.

- Andres