I usually use pg_ctl reload instead of kill
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:57:22 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote
> Is there any way to increase sort_mem without having to perform a
> full restart of the DB? Will just doing a 'kill -HUP $PID" work as
> long as i've made the change in postgresql.conf first?
>
> As a side question, are the options that will take effect with a kill
> -HUP documented somewhere?
>
> thanks!
>
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