Re: How to check postgres running or not ?

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 ?

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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