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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2003-10-16 17:38:01 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2003-10-16 17:38:01 +0000
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Add mention of SIGHUP on the postmaster manual page.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml5
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 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml,v 1.37 2003/09/24 18:54:01 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml,v 1.38 2003/10/16 17:38:01 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -370,12 +370,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</para>
<para>
- To tell <command>postgres</command> to reread the configuration file,
+ To tell <command>postgres</command> to reload the configuration files,
send a <literal>SIGHUP</literal> signal. Normally it's best to
<literal>SIGHUP</literal> the <command>postmaster</command> instead;
the <command>postmaster</command> will in turn <literal>SIGHUP</literal>
each of its children. But in some cases it might be desirable to have only
- one <command>postgres</command> process reread the configuration file.
+ one <command>postgres</command> process reload the configuration files.
</para>
<para>
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 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml,v 1.40 2003/09/18 20:30:15 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml,v 1.41 2003/10/16 17:38:01 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -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 <literal>SIGHUP</literal> signal will
+ reload the server configuration files.
</para>
<para>