On 16/10/2010 16:13, Kynn Jones wrote:
I want to code a Perl function (part of a Perl library) for determining the existence of a particular database (in a given host/port). One way would be to just attempt making a connection to it, trapping any errors upon failure (with eval), or discarding the connection upon success. This approach has the added benefit of also checking the accessibility of the database to the user running the code, but for this application this added benefit is not necessary. Checking existence is all that matters. Is there an even faster way to check for a database's existence that does not require establishing a connection?
You're going to have to connect no matter what you do, assuming that you're accessing it from another machine.
An alternative, if it suited your application, would be to maintain a connection to a database which you know exists, such as template1 or (better) postgres, and just query pg_database for the existence of the database you want. If you can keep a connection open for long periods, I'm sure this would be pretty fast.
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