On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was rather surprised when I learned this from the description in > guc.h of SIGHUP options. I tested by altering "full_page_writes" in > postgresql.conf and sending a SIGHUP to one backend, and sure enough > that backend picked up the change but new backends didn't. Unless this > feature is documented somewhere else, I think it would be helpful to > keep a snippet like this.
I'm not sure we want people to rely on that behavior. Had we a way of being sure that all backends would see an updated value at the same time, we might be able to make some things that are PGC_POSTMASTER to be PGC_SIGHUP instead. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
