Re: pg_receivewal and SIGTERM

Re: Bharath Rupireddy
>     <application>pg_receivewal</application> will exit with status 0 when
> -   terminated by the <systemitem>SIGINT</systemitem> signal.  (That is the
> +   terminated by the <systemitem>SIGINT</systemitem> or
> +   <systemitem>SIGTERM</systemitem> signal.  (That is the
>     normal way to end it.  Hence it is not an error.)  For fatal errors or
>     other signals, the exit status will be nonzero.
> 
> Can we specify the reason in the docs why a SIGTERM causes (which
> typically would cause a program to end with non-zero exit code)
> pg_receivewal and pg_recvlogical exit with zero exit code? Having this
> in the commit message would help developers but the documentation will
> help users out there.

We could add "because you want that if it's running as a daemon", but
TBH, I'd rather remove the parentheses part. It sounds too much like
"it works that way because that way is the sane way".

Christoph