Add no downtime schema cache reload

2021-08-09 14:10:46 -05:00
parent 20bee2ec34
commit 33f0da0509
2 changed files with 14 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -95,16 +95,19 @@ To refresh the cache without restarting the PostgREST server, send a SIGUSR1 sig

  killall -SIGUSR1 postgrest

+
+For docker you can do:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+  docker kill -s SIGUSR1 <container>
+
+  # or in docker-compose
+  docker-compose kill -s SIGUSR1 <service>
+
 .. note::

-   To refresh the cache in docker:
-
-   .. code:: bash
-
-     docker kill -s SIGUSR1 <container>
-
-     # or in docker-compose
-     docker-compose kill -s SIGUSR1 <service>
+   There's no downtime when reloading the schema cache. The reloading will happen on a background thread while requests keep being served.

 .. _schema_reloading_notify: