Re: allow online change primary_conninfo

On 2020-Mar-24, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> I think the startup sighup handler should be in startup.c, not xlog.c,
> which has enough random code already. We can add an accessor in xlog.c
> to let changing the walrcv status flag, to be called from the signal
> handler.

... as in the attached version.

Sergei included LOG messages to indicate which setting has been changed.
I put these in "#if 0" for now, but I'm thinking to remove these
altogether; we already have LOG messages when a setting changes value,
per ProcessConfigFileInternal(); the log sequence looks like this, taken
from tmp_check/log/001_stream_rep_standby_2.log after running the tests:

2020-03-25 20:54:19.413 -03 [17493] LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files
2020-03-25 20:54:19.415 -03 [17493] LOG: parameter "primary_slot_name" changed to "standby_2"
2020-03-25 20:54:19.415 -03 [17493] LOG: parameter "wal_receiver_status_interval" changed to "1"
2020-03-25 20:54:19.422 -03 [17569] LOG: started streaming WAL from primary at 0/3000000 on timeline 1
2020-03-25 20:54:19.426 -03 [17494] LOG: wal receiver process shutdown requested
2020-03-25 20:54:19.426 -03 [17569] FATAL: terminating walreceiver process due to administrator command
2020-03-25 20:54:19.433 -03 [17572] LOG: started streaming WAL from primary at 0/3000000 on timeline 1

which looks sufficient. Maybe we can reword that new message, say "wal
receiver process shutdown forced by parameter change". Not sure if we
can or should adjust the FATAL line; probably not worth the trouble.

Thoughts welcome. I'm thinking on getting this applied shortly.

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