On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:34:46PM -0700, Marc Munro wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:10 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> > Can you reproduce the problem with a reload? A stop and start will
> > terminate client connections, but a reload shouldn't.
>
> This is not currently seen as a priority (the work-around of "don't do
> that" is seen as sufficient). I'm simply hoping to get someone to say
> for sure that the client app should not be able to tell that a reload
> has happened. At that point I may be able to raise the priority of this
> issue.
As far as I know clients shouldn't notice a reload (which is effected
via a SIGHUP); I just did some tests and didn't see any problems.
However, I don't know much about the inner workings of PostgreSQL
so I can't say for sure. Maybe one of the developers will comment.
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Michael Fuhr
