From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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 17:08:48 |
Message-ID: | 22116.1194282528@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> 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.
I still see no point in creating a separate binary for the
functionality. If you want to make it available to shell scripts,
invent a "pg_ctl ping" subcommand.
regards, tom lane
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