Chris Angelico wrote: > I'm looking for a reliable way to be sure that Postgres has finished > its initialization and is ready to rumble. The normal way to test this is a connection attempt. You could also look into the server logs for the appropriate message, but that seems more fragile and difficult. Does that help? Yours, Laurenz Albe - Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general