Re: How to check postgres running or not ?

Funny... I set up a little program on my development
machine that queries for the rendezvous name. This way
I know my development machine is running before I try
to connect.

I think zeroconf could be used for this quite
easily...

JMHO

Ted


--- Arne Stoelck <stolck@web.de> wrote:

> 
> How about a simple
> 
> " telnet localhost 5432 "  ?
> 
> assuming postmaster is listening on that host and
> port
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Sandeep Gaikwad wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello Sir,
> >               I want to know how to check whether
> postgres database is 
> > running or not ? when  I give command like
> ./postmaster -i &, whether all 
> > databases in that postgres will run or any one
> [default] ? If any one, then 
> > how to detect that database ?
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Sandeep.
> >
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