From: "Kevin Grittner" <kgri...@ymail.com>
5. FATAL: terminating walreceiver process due to administrator
command
6. FATAL: terminating background worker \"%s\" due to
administrator command

Those are client connections and their backends terminated for a
reason other than the client side of the connection requesting it.
If we don't classify those as FATAL then the definition of FATAL
becomes much more fuzzy. What would you define it to mean?


I'm sorry to cause you trouble, but my understanding is that those are not client connections. They are just background server processes; walreceiver is started by startup process, and background workers are started by extension modules. Am I misunderstanding something?

According to Table 18-1 in the manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html

the definition of FATAL is:

FATAL
Reports an error that caused the current session to abort.

This does not apply to the above messages, because there is no error. The DBA just shut down the database server, and the background processes terminated successfully.

If some message output is desired, LOG's definition seems the nearest:

LOG
Reports information of interest to administrators, e.g., checkpoint activity.

So, I thought "ereport(LOG, ...); proc_exit(0)" is more appropriate than ereport(FATAL, ...). Is this so strange?

Regards
MauMau



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