| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Idea: closing the loop for "pg_ctl reload" |
| Date: | 2015-03-03 17:09:29 |
| Message-ID: | 54F5EAC9.6030903@BlueTreble.com |
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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)?
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com
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