Re: Unable to reload postgresql.conf without restarting - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Thu, Jan  3, 2013 at 11:25:41AM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made some changes to postgresql.conf and I want them to take effect without
> having to restart the server.
>
> I tried
>
> select pg_reload_conf();
> /usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl reload
>
> but when I do 'show all', I see no changes take effect.
>
> There settings I tried to change are:
> -effective_cache_size
> -work_mem
>
> Im using posgres 9.1 on Centos Linux (amazon ec2)

That is quite odd.  Can you show us the commands and the postgresql.conf
line you are changing?

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