Re: Idea: closing the loop for "pg_ctl reload"

On 3/3/15 9:26 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-03-03 15:21:24 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Fwiw this concerns me slightly. I'm sure a lot of people are doing
>> things like "kill -HUP `cat .../postmaster.pid`" or the equivalent.
>
> postmaster.pid already contains considerably more than just the pid. e.g.
> 4071
> /srv/dev/pgdev-master
> 1425396089
> 5440
> /tmp
> localhost
>    5440001  82345992

If we already have all this extra stuff, why not include an actual error 
message then, or at least the first line of an error (or maybe just swap 
any newlines with spaces)?
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