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

On March 2, 2015 12:56:23 AM Jan de Visser wrote:
>
> Here's my first crack at this. Notes:
> 1/ I haven't done the '-W' flag Tom mentions yet.
> 2/ Likewise haven't touched pg_reload_conf()
> 3/ Design details: I introduced a new struct in pg_ctl containing the
> parsed- out data from postmaster.pid, with functions to retrieve the data
> and to dispose memory allocated for it. This made the change in do_reload
> fairly straightforward. I think this struct can be used in other places in
> pg_ctl as well, and potentially in other files as well.
> 4/ Question: Can I assume pg_malloc allocated memory is set to zero? If not,
> is it OK to do a memset(..., 0, ...)? I don't have much experience on any
> of the esoteric platforms pgsql supports...

Slight tweaks to better deal with pre-9.5 (6?) servers that don't write the
reload timestamp. I tested with a 9.4 server and it seemed to work...

Also implemented -W/-w. Haven't done pg_reload_conf() yet.