Read the mysqld man pages about what it does with kill -X signals.
One of them may mean "graceful stop" Or not. If there is one, you'd still have to figure out how to tie that into a re-boot or whatever for updates. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable feature request if you find nothing at all... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
