Re: Reliably determining whether the server came up

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 12:29 -0800, Mischa Sandberg wrote:
>   
>> Quoting "H. Hall" :
>>
>>     
>>> Mischa Sandberg wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I've been trying to work out a reliable script to determine, 
>>>> after pg_ctl start, that the server is done attempting
>>>> to come up, and that it has either succeeded OR FAILED.
>>>> This is for several hundred unattended appliance-type servers,
>>>> currently on PG 8.0 but soon to be on 8.3
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Why don't you try to create a connection to a db on each server?
>>>       
>> Thanks, but that only tells me if the server is up at the time of trying
>> to connect.
>>     
>
> Actually it doesn't. If you are using any standard library to connect if
> the server is not ready to accept connections, it will tell you when you
> connect. If the server failed to come up, you won't get a connection at
> all, if you try to connect and you are able to connect but not initiate
> a session and appropriate response will be sent.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>   
Exactly. :-)
Also, once you take a look at your solution code a light bulb may go 
off. Hey! This code could also be used to test the health of my db 
servers during production!  If I just execute it in a timer thread . . . 
Hmmm.
--cheers, HH



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