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authorTom Lane2012-05-11 21:46:08 +0000
committerTom Lane2012-05-11 21:46:37 +0000
commitd0c231d13224621c2bd1e7e0466dd8000bdc1a02 (patch)
tree16f97dffc2500f0fb8ff435ce44a7b2924068025 /src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
parent2cfb1c6f77734db81b6e74bcae630f93b94f69be (diff)
Cosmetic adjustments for postmaster's handling of checkpointer.
Correct some comments, order some operations a bit more consistently. No functional changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c b/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
index 5daf8c6177b..9ad7178aeb8 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
* The bgwriter is started by the postmaster as soon as the startup subprocess
* finishes, or as soon as recovery begins if we are doing archive recovery.
* It remains alive until the postmaster commands it to terminate.
- * Normal termination is by SIGUSR2, which instructs the bgwriter to exit(0).
- * Emergency termination is by SIGQUIT; like any
- * backend, the bgwriter will simply abort and exit on SIGQUIT.
+ * Normal termination is by SIGTERM, which instructs the bgwriter to exit(0).
+ * Emergency termination is by SIGQUIT; like any backend, the bgwriter will
+ * simply abort and exit on SIGQUIT.
*
* If the bgwriter exits unexpectedly, the postmaster treats that the same
* as a backend crash: shared memory may be corrupted, so remaining backends