Re: How to check postgres running or not ?

--- Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:

> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his
> trail, sgaikwad@vertex.co.in ("Sandeep Gaikwad")
> transmitted:
> > Hello Sir,
> >                 I want to know how to check
> whether postgres database
> > is running or not ? when  I give command like
> ./postmaster -i &,
> > whether all databases in that postgres will run or
> any one [default] ? 
> > If any one, then how to detect that database ?

The "standard" way would be "pg_ctl status".  "man
pg_ctl" is recommended reading for anyone
administering a PostgreSQL setup.

> 
> Well, the way I usually check on what databases are
> running is thus:
> 
> cbbrowne@wolfe:/tmp/mm5/doc> netstat -an | grep PG  
>                                                     
>                                  Saturday 13:18:30
> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING    
> 2793 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
> 
> One could presumably script things further to get
> more out of that; it
> doesn't normally seem worthwhile to do so...
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