- To tell postgres to reread the configuration file,
+ To tell postgres to reload the configuration files,
send a SIGHUP signal. Normally it's best to
SIGHUP the postmaster instead;
the postmaster will in turn SIGHUP
each of its children. But in some cases it might be desirable to have only
- one postgres process reread the configuration file.
+ one postgres process reload the configuration files.
all clients to terminate before quitting, the second will
forcefully disconnect all clients, and the third will quit
immediately without proper shutdown, resulting in a recovery run
- during restart.
+ during restart. The SIGHUP signal will
+ reload the server configuration files.