Re: Detecting postgres servers

From: Murray Cumming <murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com>
To: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Detecting postgres servers
Date: 2006-01-10 20:42:43
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On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:34 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Is there any way, without a username and password, to
> 1. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host on a
> certain port.
> 2. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host.
> 3. Detect whether a Postgres server is running somewhere on the local
> network, via some bonjour/rendezvous/avahi/howl-type thing?

Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Is a patch to add discovery via avahi likely to be accepted?

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Murray Cumming
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