| From: | Erik Price <eprice(at)ptc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Travis Hume <travis(dot)hume(at)tenzing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Breck Thomas <Breck(dot)Thomas(at)tenzing(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: need a method to ping a running database |
| Date: | 2003-06-12 12:24:04 |
| Message-ID: | 3EE870E4.4030103@ptc.com |
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Travis Hume wrote:
> to determine if the database had been started. There are a couple of
> problems with this method. It seems that if you start postgresql and
> then issue a "kill -9" on the postmaster processes a .pid file is left
> behind (understandable), but then if you run "pg_ctl status" it will
> immediately report that the database is running and give you the pid
> number and whatever else.
I've seen this message at the bottom of some emails to this list:
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TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Erik
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