Re: How to check postgres running or not ?

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 <stolck(at)web(dot)de> 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