Same as -t -c...
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:10:28AM -0500, Lane Van Ingen wrote:
> What does the 'c' part of the -tc command do? It is not documented in
> any information I have.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Jim C. Nasby
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:38 PM
> To: Chris Hoover
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios
>
>
> I'm not familiar with Nagios, but you should be able to do something
> like
>
> psql -tc 'select 1' database
>
> to see if it's alive and accepting queries.
>
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> > Is anyone using Nagios to monitor PostgreSQL?
> >
> > If so, is there any way to check for more than just your PostgreSQL
> instance
> > being up?
> >
> > This weekend, we had an issue where a database shutdown failed due to a
> > rogue query that would not die w/o a kill -9 being done on it. The
> database
> > remained up and accepted connections only to tell the connection to go
> away
> > because the database was shutting down.
> >
> > This up and accepting connections caused our Nagios instance to not report
> > the database being down.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get around this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
>
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