On April 21, 2015 09:01:14 PM Jan de Visser wrote:
> On April 21, 2015 07:32:05 PM Payal Singh wrote:
> > I'm trying to review this patch and applied
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/37123/Let_pg_ctl_check_the
> > _r esult_of_a_postmaster_config_reload.patch to postgres. gmake check
> > passed but while starting postgres I see:
> >
> > [postgres@vagrant-centos65 data]$ LOG: incomplete data in
> > "postmaster.pid": found only 5 newlines while trying to add line 8
> > LOG: redirecting log output to logging collector process
> > HINT: Future log output will appear in directory "pg_log".
> >
> >
> > Also, a simple syntax error test gave no warning at all on doing a reload,
> > but just as before there was an error message in the logs:
> >
> > [postgres@vagrant-centos65 data]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data reload
> > server signaled
> > [postgres@vagrant-centos65 data]$ cd pg_log
> > [postgres@vagrant-centos65 pg_log]$ ls
> > postgresql-2015-04-21_232328.log postgresql-2015-04-21_232858.log
> > [postgres@vagrant-centos65 pg_log]$ grep error
> > postgresql-2015-04-21_232858.log
> > LOG: syntax error in file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf" line
> > 211, near token "/"
> > LOG: configuration file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf" contains
> > errors; no changes were applied
> >
> > I'm guessing since this is a patch submitted to the commitfest after the
> > current one, am I too early to start reviewing it?
> >
> > Payal
>
> But, but, but... it worked for me... :-)
>
> I'll have a look. I'll apply my patch to a clean tree and see if any bits
> have rotted in the last month or so.
>
> One thing to note is that you won't get the actual error; just a message
> that reloading failed.
>
> jan
Urgh. It appears you are right. Will fix.
jan
