jotpe <jotpe(at)posteo(dot)de> writes:
> A system administration applied an invalid line into the pg_hba.conf
> file and called "service postgresql reload". Since that command doesn't
> return any error and leaves with exit code 0 it seams that new
> configuration was applied.
> Of course postgresql added a warning to the log file: "pg_hba.conf not
> reloaded".
> But even when I execute SELECT pg_reload_conf(), true is returned.
> Is this the desired behavior?
I wouldn't say it's desired behavior, exactly, but there's no very
good way to improve it. pg_ctl has no visibility into what the postmaster
is thinking.
regards, tom lane