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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
|> It seems that there is no way to know the postgres
|> uptime, a sort of uptime() function could be usefull.
|> I had recently the necessity of detect a node fail over,
|> and the only way I can do it with a SQL connection is asking
|> the engine uptime. Of course I can do it with PS but
|> now that windows version is out I believe a platform
|> indipendent way is required. Any objection to add it ?
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| That sounds like a cool idea to me, although I would suggest a function
| pg_uptime() that returns an interval or something.
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| However, adding a new function requires a re-initdb, so it's quite
| unlikely this will be in for 8.0.
Even if the re-initdb was not necessary we are in beta, and usualy the
new features are not allowed.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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