Re: [HACKERS] Should we eliminate or reduce HUP from docs?

Hi,

On 2017-03-10 11:57:30 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I am a bad speaker, I am writing a talk three weeks before the conference
> (as opposed to on the plane). I noticed in the docs we still reference the
> passing of SIGHUP for reloading conf file but we now have pg_reload_conf();
> 
> It seems the use of pg_reload_conf() would provide a better canonical
> interface to our users. Especially those users who are not used to
> interacting with the OS (Windows, Oracle etc...) for databases.

-1 HUP is useful for external control. Doesn't require to have a valid
log-in into the database.

Regards,

Andres