Re: Detecting postgres servers

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:34 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Is there any way, without a username and password, to
> 1. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host on a
> certain port.
> 2. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host.
> 3. Detect whether a Postgres server is running somewhere on the local
> network, via some bonjour/rendezvous/avahi/howl-type thing?

Does anybody have any ideas about this?

Is a patch to add discovery via avahi likely to be accepted?

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