Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into erikj/split_fed_store

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/transactions.py b/synapse/storage/transactions.py

index b4b479d94c..428e7fa36e 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/transactions.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/transactions.py
@@ -273,7 +273,9 @@ class TransactionStore(SQLBaseStore):
         return self.cursor_to_dict(txn)
 
     def _start_cleanup_transactions(self):
-        run_as_background_process("cleanup_transactions", self._cleanup_transactions)
+        return run_as_background_process(
+            "cleanup_transactions", self._cleanup_transactions,
+        )
 
     def _cleanup_transactions(self):
         now = self._clock.time_msec()