On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:27:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Phil Sorber <p...@omniti.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [rhaas pgsql]$ pg_isready -h www.google.com
> >> <grows old, dies>
>
> > Do you think we should have a default timeout, or only have one if
> > specified at the command line?
>
> +1 for default timeout --- if this isn't like "ping" where you are
> expecting to run indefinitely, I can't see that it's a good idea for it
> to sit very long by default, in any circumstance.
FYI, the pg_ctl -w (wait) default is 60 seconds:
from pg_ctl.c:
#define DEFAULT_WAIT 60
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