Ah, my Sys. Admin. tells me this is the easiest way and it won't
restart the database instance:
kill -HUP postmaster_pid
-david
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:40:35 +0100, Miroslav Šulc
<miroslav.sulc@startnet.cz> wrote:
> David Wagoner wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to have Postgres re-read the pg_hba.conf file while the
> >database is up and running (i.e., no restarting)? Perhaps using
> >SIGHUP?
> >
> >
> I think you're right with the SIGHUP. In my init script from Gentoo
> there is option to reload (which I think is the same):
> su - $PGUSER -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl reload -D '$PGDATA' -s"
>
> >I added a user entry to the pg_hba.conf file and cannot bounce the database.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >david
> >
> Miroslav
>
>
>
