Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> 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.
I still see no point in creating a separate binary for the
functionality. If you want to make it available to shell scripts,
invent a "pg_ctl ping" subcommand.
regards, tom lane
