On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, A.Bhuvaneswaran wrote:
> I am using pgsql 7.3.2.
>
> If we change the deadlock_timeout value in postgresql.conf and say pg_ctl
> reload, the new value is not taken affect. But any other changes like,
> datestyle, log_connection, log_pid, etc are taken affect immediately when
> we say pg_ctl reload. When we restart the server, the changed
> deadlock_timeout value is taken affect.
It looks like deadlock_timeout is set PGC_POSTMASTER so it's not
supposed to be reread on SIGHUP (reload) but only on postmaster start.