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

Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net> writes:
> On August 25, 2015 09:31:35 PM Michael Paquier wrote:
>> This patch had feedback, but there has been no update in the last
>> month, so I am now marking it as returned with feedback.

> It was suggested that this mechanism became superfluous with the inclusion of
> the view postgresql.conf (pg_settings?) in 9.5. I left it to Tom (being the
> one that suggested the feature) to indicate if he still thinks it's useful.

I think there's still a fair argument for "pg_ctl reload" being able to
return a simple yes-or-no result. We had talked about trying to shoehorn
textual error messages into the protocol, and I'm now feeling that that
complication isn't needed, but a bare-bones feature would still be worth
the trouble IMO.

regards, tom lane