"Mark Seftel" <mark@trustemail.com> writes:
> I need to changes to pg_hba.conf and now need to "SIGHUP the postmaster"
> Does anyone no how to do this.
The hard way is to determine the postmaster's PID (eg, by looking at ps
output) and then do
kill -HUP postmaster_PID
The easier way is to do "pg_ctl reload" which does this for you.
You need to have $PGDATA set in your environment to make it work
conveniently, though.
regards, tom lane
