Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference
> (as opposed to on the plane).

Hah.

> I noticed in the docs we still reference the
> passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have pg_reload_conf();
> 
> It seems the use of pg_reload_conf() would provide a better canonical
> interface to our users. Especially those users who are not used to
> interacting with the OS (Windows, Oracle etc...) for databases.

There are several ways to cause a config file reload (pg_ctl reload,
pg_reload_conf, direct SIGHUP).  We could have a section in docs listing
them all, and then all the other places that say a reload needs to occur
simply refer the reader to that section.

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