| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Idea: closing the loop for "pg_ctl reload" |
| Date: | 2015-03-03 15:21:24 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HN+c77FGcWExLfGv3zruuNLeM85mzVnOhZr-48dd=enPQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 1. Extend the definition of the postmaster.pid file to add another
> line, which will contain the time of the last postmaster configuration
> load attempt (might as well be a numeric Unix-style timestamp) and
> a boolean indication of whether that attempt succeeded or not.
Fwiw this concerns me slightly. I'm sure a lot of people are doing
things like "kill -HUP `cat .../postmaster.pid`" or the equivalent.
We do have the external_pid_file GUC so perhaps this just means we
should warn people in the release notes or somewhere and point them at
that GUC.
--
greg
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