Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/ oc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml

Tom Lane writes:

> > Tom, does a client do a kill() to its parent on password change?
>
> Right, it's basically the same as the way we handle checkpoint and
> SI-overrun signaling:
>
> /*
> * Signal the postmaster to reload its password-file cache.
> */
> if (IsUnderPostmaster)
> kill(getppid(), SIGHUP);

But does this mean that postgresql.conf will be reread globally (i.e., by
the postmaster), when the user signals HUP only to a single backend? I
guess this is actually a good idea, but it would be a change of
functionality. Admittedly, the window of utility of signalling only a
single backend is small, but let's make sure the hupping behavior is
correctly documented, because this is possibly not expected.

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