* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Jan de Visser <j...@de-visser.net> writes: > > Attached a new patch, rebased against the current head. Errors in > > pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf are now also noticed. > > > I checked the documentation for pg_ctl reload, and the only place where > > it's explained seems to be runtime.sgml and that description is so > > high-level that adding this new bit of functionality wouldn't make much > > sense. > > BTW, it's probably worth pointing out that the recent work on the > pg_file_settings view has taken away a large part of the use-case for > this, in that you can find out more with less risk by inspecting > pg_file_settings before issuing SIGHUP, instead of SIGHUP'ing and > hoping you didn't break anything too nastily. Also, you can use > pg_file_settings remotely, unlike pg_ctl (though admittedly you > still need contrib/adminpack or something to allow uploading a > new config file if you're doing remote admin). > > I wonder whether we should consider inventing similar views for > pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf.
Yes. That's definitely something that I'd been hoping someone would
work on.
Also, thanks for the work on the pg_file_settings code; I agree with all
you did there.
Thanks again!
Stephen
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