On Monday 10 June 2002 10:29 am, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> What's the best way to ensure that Pg is running from a shell script?
> I'm crafting a few RPMs for my projects, one of which will attempt to
> load data into a database, but I want to check that it's running first
> before I try this.
See the man page for pg_ctl. There is, IIRC, a status option, but you have to
know the location of PGDATA (which, in a vanilla RPM install is
/var/lib/pgsql/data).
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Lamar Owen
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