"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> It seems like pg_ping (client utility and related postmaster support)
> should be a discrete patch. Improvements to pg_ctl and init scripts
> would come later, as separate patches?
Sounds sane to me. Alternatively, do the postmaster support and make
the presumably-minor pg_ctl mods to use it, and then a standalone
pg_ping utility could come later. I'm not sure how big the utility
would be, but surely bigger than the delta in pg_ctl.
regards, tom lane