On 02/27/2015 04:41 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> we can do copy of pg_hba.conf somewhere when postmaster starts or when it >> is reloaded. > > Please see my reply to Tom. There's no trivial way to reach into the > postmaster from a backend- but we do get a copy of whatever the > postmaster had when we forked, and the postmaster only reloads > pg_hba.conf on a sighup and that sighup is passed down to the children, > so we simply need to also reload the pg_hba.conf in the children when > they get a sighup. > > That's how postgresql.conf is handled, which is what pg_settings is > based off of, and I believe is the behavior folks are really looking > for.
I thought the patch in question just implemented reading the file from disk, and nothing else? Speaking for my uses, I would rather have just that for 9.5 than wait for something more sophisticated in 9.6. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
