Ah-ha. Thank you for pointing that out. I did not notice.
In case you're interested, I used a StackOverflow solution to programmatically determine whether a database exists, after first ensuring that the cluster has been initialized and that the server is running.
Thank you for your rapid response,
Jake
---- On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:29:11 -0700 David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote ----
The notes section of the docs for the command cover this behavior. It is not a bug, the utility answers whether the server will accept connections generally, not that a specific connection string and credentials are valid.
