Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:57:30AM -0800, Joshua Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference > (as opposed to on the plane). I noticed in the docs we still reference the > passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > David G. Johnston wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera < > alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> > > > is incomplete. > > Sure. We can just reword that along the lines of " ... and when a > reload

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
David G. Johnston wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > > I think we could split 19.1.2 in two parts, where the first one is the > > current content minus the paragraph "The configuration file is reread". > > We'd create "19.1.3

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > David G. Johnston wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera < > alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> > > wrote: > > > > There are several ways to cause a config file reload (pg_ctl reload, > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
David G. Johnston wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > There are several ways to cause a config file reload (pg_ctl reload, > > pg_reload_conf, direct SIGHUP). We could have a section in docs listing > > them all, and then all the other

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference > > (as opposed to on the plane). > > Hah. > > > I noticed in the docs we still reference the > > passing of

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference > (as opposed to on the plane). Hah. > I noticed in the docs we still reference the > passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have pg_reload_conf(); > > It seems the use of

Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2017-03-10 11:57:30 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference > (as opposed to on the plane). I noticed in the docs we still reference the > passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have pg_reload_conf(); > > It

[HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

2017-03-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference (as opposed to on the plane). I noticed in the docs we still reference the passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have pg_reload_conf(); It seems the use of pg_reload_conf() would provide a better