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

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 1. Extend the definition of the postmaster.pid file to add another
> line, which will contain the time of the last postmaster configuration
> load attempt (might as well be a numeric Unix-style timestamp) and
> a boolean indication of whether that attempt succeeded or not.


Fwiw this concerns me slightly. I'm sure a lot of people are doing
things like "kill -HUP `cat .../postmaster.pid`" or the equivalent.

We do have the external_pid_file GUC so perhaps this just means we
should warn people in the release notes or somewhere and point them at
that GUC.

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greg