Quoting "H. Hall" <hhall1001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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. What I'm trying to test is, did the server just start up and abort? This is in a large cluster, and in (say) a box-by-box software upgrade, any time-outs are additive. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
