Re: Checking that Pg is running from a shell script - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Fran Fabrizio
Subject Re: Checking that Pg is running from a shell script
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Msg-id 3D04EAD8.7030308@mmrd.com
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In response to Checking that Pg is running from a shell script  (Fran Fabrizio <ffabrizio@mmrd.com>)
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Lamar Owen wrote:

>On Monday 10 June 2002 10:29 am, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
>
>
>>What's the best way to ensure that Pg is running from a shell script?
>> I'm crafting a few RPMs for my projects, one of which will attempt to
>>load data into a database, but I want to check that it's running first
>>before I try this
>>
>See the man page for pg_ctl.  There is, IIRC, a status option, but you have to
>know the location of PGDATA (which, in a vanilla RPM install is
>/var/lib/pgsql/data).
>
>

Thanks all, the pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data status should be
sufficient for my needs.

-Fran


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