Re: Reliably determining whether the server came up

Perhaps it's my "test for DB ready" that's the problem?
This is the typical glitch I get ...

+ mkdir -p /persist/pgdata
+ chmod 700 /persist/pgdata
+ initdb -Atrust -Upmx -L/persist/pgsql/8.0.9/share >/dev/null
+ cp -p /persist/etc/p*g*.conf /persist/pgdata
+ chmod u+w /persist/home/mischa/pgdata/*.conf
+ pgconf dynamic_library_path=/persist/pgsql/8.0.9/lib
+ touch pg-Mon.log >/tmp/pg.5432.log
+ mkdir -p /persist/pglog
+ cd /persist/pglog
+ pg_ctl start -s -l /tmp/pg.5432.log -o '-p 5432 -B 500 -N 10'
+ while pg_ctl status && ! psql -l; do sleep 1; done >/dev/null 2>&1
+ createlang --pglib /persist/pgsql/8.0.9/lib -d template1 plpgsql
createlang: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: the
database system is starting up

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