Re: Checking that Pg is running from a shell script

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Fran Fabrizio <ffabrizio(at)mmrd(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Checking that Pg is running from a shell script
Date: 2002-06-10 17:57:20
Message-ID: 200206101357.20297.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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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).
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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