| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_ctl configurable timeout |
| Date: | 2007-11-05 14:23:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20071105142324.GA7428@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I think the mythical pg_ping utility should be written. It seems the
> > easiest way out of the problem.
>
> If pg_ctl were still a shell script there would be some point in that,
> but since it's a C program it can certainly do anything a separate
> utility would do.
Well, pg_ctl would not be the only user of such an utility. Things like
(say) control panels for shared hosting could benefit from it as well.
As would system health monitors.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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