Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I'm writing a small test harness. I have two threads. One that starts
> the postmaster and another that does all the testing and finally stops
> the postmaster with a pg_ctl stop. At present, the second thread starts
> with a sleep sufficient to ensure that the postmaster is running. Is
> there a proper way to test when the postmaster is ready to receive
> commands?
I've always assumed once I can connect, then I can send queries. There's
certainly a "postmaster still starting up" error message I've seen,
which would support that view.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd