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

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

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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