On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 09:52:17AM +0000, Loughrey, Hugh wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to write a MS-DOS command to check that the PostgreSQL database is up > and running and able to accept data being pushed to it. From a bit of reading > I’ve identified the pg_ctl status command, but can this be incorporated into a > *.bat file and can the resulting status be recorded in a *.txt file? If so does > anyone have a command which would enable this? As I remember it is pretty tricky to call pg_ctl from a Windows batch file. I know the Windows installers do it somehow --- you might want to downlaod it and see if you can find the shell script they use. Dave Page might know more --- CC'ing him. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
