Re: Kerberos options requiring restart

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> The kerberos configuration options (krb_caseinsens_users, krb_realm,
>> krb_server_keyfile, krb_srvname, krb_server_hostname) are all set as
>> PGC_POSTMASTER. From what I can see, the only places where kerberos code
>> is called is from ClientAuthentication().
>
>> That means these parameters shouldn't need to be PGC_POSTMASTER, to
>> they? Or am I missing something here?
>
> Hmmm ... I think at one time there was some kerberos initialization
> done at postmaster start, but it sure doesn't look like there is
> anymore. So we could probably make all of these SIGHUP.

That's what I figured - that, or that it at least preloaded something in
the postmaster...

I'll see about changing them.

//Magnus