Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Start background writer during archive recovery.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Couldn't you get rid of PMSIGNAL_RECOVERY_COMPLETED altogether?  If the
> startup process exits with code 0, recovery is complete, else there
> was trouble.  I find this SetPostmasterSignal bit quite ugly anyway.

Right now, the startup process exits with code 0 also when it's told to 
exit with SIGTERM, ie. fast shutdown request, and the recovery-completed 
signal is used to differentiate those cases. But yeah, we can use 
another exit code for that. I'll look into that approach.

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