Thread: Remotely reload server config?

Does anyone know if there is a way to reload the server config remotely
via a sql command?

I looked through the docs, but may have missed it.

Thanks,

Tony

Tony Caduto wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to reload the server config remotely
> via a sql command?
>
> I looked through the docs, but may have missed it.
AFAIK thats not possible with postgresql out-of-the-box.

The latest pgadminIII release (1.4), however, includes some
server-side funktions that allow remotely editing the config
file, and also allow restarting the server i believe.

You'd have to install those funktions into some database
on your server.

greetings, Florian Pflug

Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Tony Caduto wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to reload the server config remotely
> > via a sql command?
> >
> > I looked through the docs, but may have missed it.
> AFAIK thats not possible with postgresql out-of-the-box.
>
> The latest pgadminIII release (1.4), however, includes some
> server-side funktions that allow remotely editing the config
> file, and also allow restarting the server i believe.
>
> You'd have to install those funktions into some database
> on your server.

PostgreSQL 8.1 RC1 has pg_reload_conf() which does what you want.

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