Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> (Of course, a "pg_ping" utility would be a better answer, but nobody's >> gotten around to that in more than ten years, so I'm not holding my >> breath.)
> Hmm, that sounded like it could be my 9.1 mini project - then Google > showed me that SeanC wrote something already. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-07/msg00053.php Huh, I wonder why we never adopted that? Although I'd be inclined to do most of the heavy lifting inside libpq, myself, and this is way more verbose than what pg_ctl wants. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
