Re: pgping?

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM Gunnar <tongji(at)netcologne(dot)de> wrote:

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>
> On 9/19/25 06:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> How do you install pgping on RHEL 9?
> >>> It doesn't appear to come with the distribution.
> >>> Is there some specific repo you need to use?
> >> What does it do that ncat and psql don't do?
> > pg_isready might be what the OP wants.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> 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.
>
> That said I remember that I read this was broken since ... forever,
> which means nobody cares.
>

pg_isready is "ncat -zv $host 5432" for systems which don't have ncat
installed. No/few Linux systems meet that criterion, but Windows systems
might.

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