Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> That's within my definition of "ugly", yes :-) My ideal tool would
> do something like
>
> $ pg_ping -h foo -p 5555
> IN_RECOVERY
> $ echo $?
> 2
>
> $ # sleep a bit ...
>
> $ pg_ping -h foo -p 5555
> READY
> $ echo $?
> 0
Cool, but how would you do that without bypassing authentication? If
you do bypass authentication, wouldn't that be sort of a big target
for denial of service attacks?
-Kevin