Re: Suggestion to improve select pg_reload_conf() - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 03/04/2017 10:31, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I would like to suggest an improvement to the select pg_reload_conf() function.
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> Currently this will only return true or false indicating if reloading was successful.
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> I think it would be a "nice-to-have" if the function would also return the GUCs that have been changed, similar to
whatis being written to the logfile. 
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> To not break existing code (e.g. scripts that only expect true/false), this could be done through an optional boolean
parameter(e.g. named "verbose"). 
To my understanding pg_reload_conf just SIGHUP's the postmaster. So it might not be so trivial.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thomas
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