I think the inconsistent behaviour reported in this thread gets resolved with the approach and patch being discussed in [1].
> > 1. In general, do we need to allow postmaster to send different > signals to bgworkers for fast and smart shutdowns and let them > differentiate the two modes(if needed)? > Is there any way the bgworkers(for that matter, any postmaster's child process) knowing that there's a smart shutdown pending? This is useful, if any of the bgworker(if not parallel workers) want to differentiate the two modes i.e. smart and fast shutdown modes and smartly finish of their work. [1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/469199.1597337108%40sss.pgh.pa.us With Regards, Bharath Rupireddy. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
