I was recently reading a document on backup/restore of Firebird (http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-gbak.pdf) and there was a paragraph on restoring where it made a recommendation:

"For security, always recreate the database with a new name - a clone - and update the aliases.conf to reflect the new name."


Reading this phrased this way, made me question, when does the Firebird Server (V2.5 ) recognize and pick up changes to the Aliases.conf file?

My guess would be that I would need to stop and restart the server to do so. Is that correct?