Re: pg_hba changes not honored

On 8/23/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com> writes:
> > Pg_ctl is pointing to the same directory that postmaster points to on
> > startup. There is only 1 data directory/postgres installation that I
> > use.
>
> > Pg_ctl informs that postmaster is signaled. When I see the logs for
> > postmaster, it says "received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files"
>
> Well, I just re-tested it here, and it works fine for me (using 8.1.4,
> but I don't see anything in the CVS logs indicating changes in the
> relevant code since 8.1.2). So I still think there's some sort of
> pilot error involved here, but I'm running out of ideas about what.
> You might want to try the strace experiment I suggested to confirm
> that the postmaster is reading the file you think it is.

Could it be that the JDBC client creates a connection and keeps that
connection open (common with connection poolilng)? If you SIGHUP the
postmaster, will it disconnect already connected clients or does it only
reject new connections?

I say this since you said doing a restart fixes the problem.

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