Re: graceful reload - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Vasiliy G Tolstov
Subject Re: graceful reload
Date
Msg-id 1275631632.28777.0.camel@work.selfip.ru
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In response to Re: graceful reload  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-admin
В Чтв, 03/06/2010 в 13:07 -0400, Greg Smith пишет:
> Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> > In config file some in of this settings exists comment line like
> > "changes require restart". This is mean exactly restart or reload can do
> > this?
> >
>
> Run this:
>
> $ psql -c "select name,context from pg_settings"
>
> This will sort out which settings are in which category definitively,
> rather than relying on the sometimes ambiguous comments in the file.
> Settings that say "postmaster" require a full database restart.  Ones
> labeled "sighup" can be changed in the postgresql.conf and then the
> server signaled to use them, most easily with:
>
> pg_ctl reload
> -OR-
> psql -c "select pg_reload_conf()"
>
> Ones labeled "user" you can actually change for any user at any time
> during their session.  Modifying the defaults and then executing the
> sighup procedure will make those new defaults active, but not for any
> clients that already have open connections.
>
> I recommend using SHOW or looking at pg_settings after making a change
> and reloading the server config to confirm it took.
>

Ok, Thank You very much! This is really helpful.

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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
Selfip.Ru


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