> > 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 -- Sean Chittenden ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
