Re: pgping?

On 12/13/25 15:54, David G. Johnston wrote:
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> On Friday, December 12, 2025, Gunnar <tongji(at)netcologne(dot)de> wrote:
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> my latest experience with pg_isready reminded me that it only
> works on a general level (cluster ready generally) though.
> If you include a database to the command it still reports true
> even if the database you want to address does not exist.
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> That said I remember that I read this was broken since ...
> forever, which means nobody cares.
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> It isn’t broken - it is working precisely as intended and required for
> the use cases it’s meant to solve.  That’s why no one is fixing it. 
> These people that want it to solve additional use cases need to step
> up and implement some new features for it.

hm, one might argue, that if the use case 'pg_isready -d database' is
mentioned in the manual this could be seen as the aspiration, or maybe
even commitment to that feature.
Even the description of pg_isready --help mentions a "connection check
to a database", not a cluster.

Do I misinterpret the manual/help? If that was the case my next question
was ... what is the purpose of the option -d, --dbname=DBNAME ?

all best ... Gunnar