Re: walreceiver termination

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:47 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Justin King <kingpin867@gmail.com> writes:
> > We've seen unexpected termination of the WAL receiver process.  This
> > stops streaming replication, but the replica stays available --
> > restarting the server resumes streaming replication where it left off.
> > We've seen this across nearly every recent version of PG, (9.4, 9.5,
> > 11.x, 12.x) -- anything omitted is one we haven't used.
>
> > I don't have an explanation for the cause, but I was able to set
> > logging to "debug5" and run an strace of the walrecevier PID when it
> > eventually happened.  It appears as if the SIGTERM is coming from the
> > "postgres: startup" process.
>
> The startup process intentionally SIGTERMs the walreceiver under
> various circumstances, so I'm not sure that there's any surprise
> here.  Have you checked the postmaster log?
>
>                         regards, tom lane

Yep, I included "debug5" output of the postmaster log in the initial post.