| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Fabrízio Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: -d option for pg_isready is broken | 
| Date: | 2013-11-20 17:45:23 | 
| Message-ID: | 528CF533.9070806@agliodbs.com | 
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On 11/20/2013 01:55 AM, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Yeah, I agree that we should make the logic of pg_isready more future-proof
> in 9.4dev. One idea is to expose internal_ping() as a libpq function. Then,
> instead of just calling PQpingParams(), we can do PQconnectStartParams(),
> libpq-function-version-of-internal_ping(), PQhost(), PQport(), and PQfinish().
> That is, we get to know the host and port information by calling
> PQhost() and PQport(),
> after trying to connect to the server.
+1
This would allow writers of client drivers to implement their own
pg_ping() functions instead of needing to go through the shell (as I
currently do with pg_isready).
-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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