2012/10/3 Phil Sorber <p...@omniti.com>: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:01:36PM -0400, Phil Sorber wrote: >>> I was wondering recently if there was any command line tool that >>> utilized PQping() or PQpingParams(). I searched the code and couldn't >>> find anything and was wondering if there was any interest to have >>> something like this included? I wrote something for my purposes of >>> performing a health check that also supports nagios style status >>> output. It's probably convenient for scripting purposes as well. It's >>> not currently ready for submission to a commitfest, but if there was >>> an interest I would clean it up so that it would be. >> >> I don't see any tool using PQping except pg_ctl. Perhaps we should >> modify "pg_ctl status" to use PQping. Right now is only checks the >> postmaster.pid file, and checks to see that the pid is a running >> postmaster. What it currently doesn't do is to check if the server is >> accepting connections with PQping(), like we do for "pg_ctl -w start". >> >> Comments? > > I was thinking that maybe this should be a new feature in an existing > tool, however I don't think pg_ctl would satisfy my use case as it's > normally bundled with the server. This would need to be something that > I could install just a client package. It's not a deal breaker, but it > makes things more complex. > > How about adding it as an option to psql? That's not to say that I > think we shouldn't also add it to 'pg_ctl status'.
+1 Pavel > >> >> -- >> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us >> EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com >> >> + It's impossible for everything to be true. + > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers