When the wallet is rescanned at startup in `bitcoind`, there seems to be no way to interrupt that in a clean way (other than forcefully killing the process).
{
    nIndex = -1;
    keypool.vchPubKey = CPubKey();
    {
        LOCK(cs_wallet);
        if (!IsLocked())
            TopUpKeyPool();
        bool fReturningInternal = IsHDEnabled() && CanSupportFeature(FEATURE_HD_SPLIT) && fRequestedInternal;
        std::set<int64_t>& setKeyPool = fReturningInternal ? setInternalKeyPool : setExternalKeyPool;
        
        if(setKeyPool.empty())
            return;
        WalletBatch batch(*database);
        auto it = setKeyPool.begin();
        nIndex = *it;
        setKeyPool.erase(it);
        if (!batch.ReadPool(nIndex, keypool)) {
            throw std::runtime_error(std::string(__func__) + ": read failed");
        }
        if (!HaveKey(keypool.vchPubKey.GetID())) {
            throw std::runtime_error(std::string(__func__) + ": unknown key in key pool");
        }