Re: pg_postmaster_reload_time() patch

["Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>]

Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:53 AM, George Gensure <werkt0(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I've done a quick write up for reload time reporting from the
> > administration TODO.  I was a little paranoid with the locking, but
> > didn't want problems to occur with signals on the postmaster and the
> > read side.
> IMHO, the function should return NULL if the postmaster never reloaded; that
> is, it was started, but never signaled to reload.

I think it's useful to get the server startup time if the configuration 
has never been reloaded. That's when the configuration was loaded, if no 
reload has been triggered since. Perhaps the function should be named to 
reflect that better. pg_configuration_load_time() ?

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