Re: pg_ctl reports succes when start fails
От | Andrew Dunstan |
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Тема | Re: pg_ctl reports succes when start fails |
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Msg-id | 002b01c39dd3$86dd3490$6401a8c0@DUNSLANE обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: pg_ctl reports succes when start fails (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Chittenden" <sean@chittenden.org> To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>; <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_ctl reports succes when start fails > > > We can also try to come up with a better scheme for verifying that > > > we have started properly - I will think about that. > > > > There have been previous suggestions for a "pg_ping" functionality, > > in which you could simply send a packet to the postmaster and it > > would answer back if it's open for business. You can approximate > > this by sending a deliberately invalid login packet, but it's not > > quite the same thing. I think there were some concerns about > > security though; check the archives. > > Um, I wrote pg_ping and sent it to -patches but got no comments. > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-07/msg00053.php > > pg_ping is actually the basis for the threaded benchmark program I've > got sitting in my tree, but I don't think folks here would look kindly > on a -lpthread dependency given how up in the air pg's thread > support/testing is at the moment. -sc > At least those parts of that patch that alter pg_ctl seem to be moot given that we are moving to a C version of pg_ctl (Joshua Drake tells me that CommandPrompt is willing to do that work). cheers andrew
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