| From: | Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)endpoint(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Make SIGHUP less painful if pg_hba.conf is not readable |
| Date: | 2009-03-04 14:19:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20090304141954.GJ25872@eddie |
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:28:42AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Joshua Tolley wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> So. I've updated the comment, and applied your patch. Thanks!
> >
> > What would it take to get it applied to a few earlier versions as well?
>
> I guess you maintaining your own fork? ;-)
>
>
> Simply put, earlier versions threw away the contents of pg_hba and
> reloaded it completely. The support for keeping the old one around in
> case of syntax errors is new for 8.4. You'd basically require
> backpatching of large parts of that patch, and that's not going to happen.
>
> //Magnus
Given that we ran into the problem in 8.3.6, how about something like
the attached to apply to it?
- Josh / eggyknap
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| postmaster_sighup.8-3-6.patch | text/x-diff | 507 bytes |
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