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

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2017-08-02 10:58:32 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> When I shut down a cluster that isn't using logical replication, it
>> always logs a line like the following.  So do the build farm members I
>> looked at.  I didn't see anything about this in the open items list --
>> isn't it a bug?
>>
>> 2017-08-02 10:39:25.007 NZST [34781] LOG:  worker process: logical
>> replication launcher (PID 34788) exited with exit code 1
>
> Exit code 0 signals that a worker should be restarted. Therefore
> graceful exit can't really use that.  I think a) we really need to
> improve bgworker infrastructure around that b) shows the limit of using
> bgworkers for this kinda thing - we should probably have a more bgworker
> like infrastructure for internal workers.

I see.  In the meantime IMHO I think we should try to find a way to
avoid printing out this message -- it looks like something is wrong to
the uninitiated.

Possibly stupid question: why do we restart workers when we know we're
shutting down anyway?  Hmm, I suppose there might conceivably be
workers that need to do something during shutdown and they might not
have done it yet.

-- 
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com