Vincent Stoessel <vincent@xaymaca.com> writes:
> Can pg_ctl across the network?
No.
> I'd like my middleware server to know
> if my postgres db is up and running OK. I guess I could just make a
> db connection but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.
Making a connection is the only way at present. There was some talk of
writing a "pg_ping" utility that would just send a probe packet to the
postmaster (and not, for example, require you to supply a password).
No one's got round to it, but it's just a small matter of programming...
regards, tom lane
