Greg Smith escribió:
> On 3/21/13 2:38 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >Also, while I think that MOST people will probably want a SIGHUP right
> >after SET PERSISTENT, I am not sure that EVERYONE will want that. If
> >you want it and it doesn't happen automatically, you can always do it
> >by hand.
>
> This is a fair position, and since that's how the feature as written
> right now works that helps. I think proceeding this way needs to
> hand some sort of hint back to the user though, telling them the
> change isn't active until SIGHUP. The path I don't want to see if
> where someone uses SET PERSISTENT and can't figure out why nothing
> changed. It should be as obvious as we can make it to someone that
> the explicit reload is necessary.
Maybe add some syntax to prevent the SIGHUP for the rare case where that
is wanted, say
SET PERSISTENT (reload=off) var=val;
(perhaps WITH at the end, dunno)
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