From 9ad637f749b8e26eb3e0c0f3cb6bb1512c40aee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:38:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add mention of SIGHUP on the postmaster manual page. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml | 6 +++--- doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml index 279d8875e0e..d558782e63b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -370,12 +370,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation - 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. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml index f4ec3c98986..f5a8aa3ca31 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation 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.