Re: pg_ctl configurable timeout

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I think the mythical pg_ping utility should be written.  It seems the
> > easiest way out of the problem.
> 
> If pg_ctl were still a shell script there would be some point in that,
> but since it's a C program it can certainly do anything a separate
> utility would do.

Well, pg_ctl would not be the only user of such an utility.  Things like
(say) control panels for shared hosting could benefit from it as well.
As would system health monitors.

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