Re: Reopen logfile on SIGHUP

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reopen logfile on SIGHUP
Date: 2018-04-10 19:40:11
Message-ID: CA+TgmobqVugbJFoeP=ZiBQ_pA7-710fsuYNtvDv48uzBgRvtQA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> We, as in the core project, are not shipping it.

+1 for what JD said on that subject.

> I'm also unclear
> on why you want to exclude "fix the RPM packaging" as a reasonable
> solution.

Mostly because the complaint was about the *Debian* packaging. Other
than that, it's possible that that's the way forward.

> It seems likely that some change in that packaging would
> be necessary anyway, as it wouldn't know today about any signaling
> method we might choose to adopt.
>
> Having said that, I'm not averse to providing a solution if it's robust,
> not too invasive and doesn't break other use-cases. So far we've not
> seen a patch that meets those conditions.

Fair enough.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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