Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think this is introducing complication and race conditions to solve a
>>> problem that no one will really care about. Just let people change the
>>> filename at SIGHUP and document that doing that on-the-fly may cause
>>> stats queries to fail for a short interval.
>
>> Ok, I'll do it that way.
>
> BTW, it might be worth tweaking the stats collector to dump stats
> immediately after responding to SIGHUP, just to narrow this window
> as much as possible.
Pah, that is too obvious :-)
Yeah, should've thought of that, will make that happen.
> [ squint... ] Actually, it looks like the stats collector SIG_IGNores
> SIGHUP? That can't be right (any more) can it?
It did, until after my patch that was applied a couple of minutes ago.
After the patch, it cares about SIGHUP.
//Magnus