Re: How to tell when postmaster is ready

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I'm writing a small test harness. I have two threads. One that starts 
> the postmaster and another that does all the testing and finally stops 
> the postmaster with a pg_ctl stop. At present, the second thread starts 
> with a sleep sufficient to ensure that the postmaster is running. Is 
> there a proper way to test when the postmaster is ready to receive 
> commands?

I've always assumed once I can connect, then I can send queries. There's 
certainly a "postmaster still starting up" error message I've seen, 
which would support that view.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd