Whenever I gracefully shut down my FastAPI app by saving a file (with the --reload option), it waits for all background tasks to be complete before initiating shutdown. uvicorn INFO: Shutting down uvicorn INFO: connection closed uvicorn INFO: Waiting for background tasks to complete. (CTRL+C to force quit) The problem is that my tasks will never be completed since I need to manually cancel them upon FastAPI shutdown. In the following example: @asynccontextmanager async def lifespan(app: FastAPI): # Startup logic (if any) yield logger.info("Shutting down sessions") # Shutdown logic (if any) Session.close_all() "Shutting down sessions" is never logged because it is waiting for all background tasks to be completed, which will never happen until I call Session.close_all(). How am I supposed to close my sessions so that FastAPI can properly shut down? Continue reading...
