On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Another and probably bigger thing is that SIGHUP is used for settings > that do something useful only in background processes (eg checkpointer). > Some of those processes are not capable of reading system catalogs at > all. This is particularly a showstopper for settings affecting the > postmaster itself, which is most certainly *not* going to grow the > ability to read catalogs.
This seems like a pretty large strike against this whole idea. In fact, I think we might want to abandon this whole approach on this basis. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
