On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:28:47PM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote: > >> We have an ssh connection running from one server to our > >> postgresql database on another server. Some times we > >> experience that the ssh tunnel does not work anymore and > >> needs to be restarted, even though we use the autossh > >> package. I would like to write a script that “pings” > >> postgresql on the specified port, to check if the connection > >> goes through. I have tried with netcat, but it does not > >> really check if postgresql is in the other end of the tunnel, > >> it only check if there is as service (the tunnel) listing on > >> the port on the local machine. Is there another way of > >> pinging the port, to see if postgresql is alive at the other > >> end? If possible, I would like to NOT actually establishing a > >> connection to postgresql like if i used psql -c “select 1;”, > >> to avoid connection overhead. > > > > This > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/libpq-connect.html > > > > talks about ping functionality. Maybe you can use a tiny > > custom piece of code ? > > That tiny custom piece of code would be this: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pg-isready.html That's what I had in mind :-) Thanks, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
