Funny... I set up a little program on my development machine that queries for the rendezvous name. This way I know my development machine is running before I try to connect.
I think zeroconf could be used for this quite easily... JMHO Ted --- Arne Stoelck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about a simple > > " telnet localhost 5432 " ? > > assuming postmaster is listening on that host and > port > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Sandeep Gaikwad wrote: > > > > > Hello Sir, > > I want to know how to check whether > postgres database is > > running or not ? when I give command like > ./postmaster -i &, whether all > > databases in that postgres will run or any one > [default] ? If any one, then > > how to detect that database ? > > > > Thanks and regards, > > Sandeep. > > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose > an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings