Re: pg_ctl reports succes when start fails

Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > We can also try to come up with a better scheme for verifying that
> > > we have started properly - I will think about that.
> > 
> > There have been previous suggestions for a "pg_ping" functionality,
> > in which you could simply send a packet to the postmaster and it
> > would answer back if it's open for business.  You can approximate
> > this by sending a deliberately invalid login packet, but it's not
> > quite the same thing.  I think there were some concerns about
> > security though; check the archives.
> 
> Um, I wrote pg_ping and sent it to -patches but got no comments.
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-07/msg00053.php
> 
> pg_ping is actually the basis for the threaded benchmark program I've
> got sitting in my tree, but I don't think folks here would look kindly
> on a -lpthread dependency given how up in the air pg's thread
> support/testing is at the moment.  -sc

As far as I know, thread support is on the ground for platforms that
have tested it.

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