Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > We can also try to come up with a better scheme for verifying that > > > we have started properly - I will think about that. > > > > There have been previous suggestions for a "pg_ping" functionality, > > in which you could simply send a packet to the postmaster and it > > would answer back if it's open for business. You can approximate > > this by sending a deliberately invalid login packet, but it's not > > quite the same thing. I think there were some concerns about > > security though; check the archives. > > Um, I wrote pg_ping and sent it to -patches but got no comments. > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-07/msg00053.php > > pg_ping is actually the basis for the threaded benchmark program I've > got sitting in my tree, but I don't think folks here would look kindly > on a -lpthread dependency given how up in the air pg's thread > support/testing is at the moment. -sc
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