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From Aleksis Petrov
Subject Re: TODO item: Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
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In response to Re: TODO item: Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Via signal handling? Use the kill() function (or its pg equivalent) to send the appropriate signal?

On 4/6/07, Tom Lane < tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"Aleksis Petrov" < a.aleksis@gmail.com> writes:
> Would it be acceptable to invoke pg_ctl in the API functions to stop and
> restart the server?

No.  Not everyone uses pg_ctl for that.

                        regards, tom lane

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