Re: SIGTERM/FATAL error

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> This is a non-improvement.  Please reverse it.  SIGTERM would only be
> >> sent to a backend if the database system were in fact shutting down.
> 
> > But why say the system is shutting down if the backend is shutting down.
> > Seems the postmaster should say system shutting down and each backend
> > should say it is shutting itself down.  The way it is now, don't we get
> > a "system shutting down" message for every running backend?
> 
> You are failing to consider that the primary audience for this error
> message is not the system log, but the clients of the backends.  They
> are going to see only one message, and they are going to want to know
> *why* their backend shut down.

Oops, I get it now.  Makes perfect sense.  Thanks.

I am using the SIGTERM in my administration application to allow
administrators to kill individual backends.  That is why I noticed the
message.


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