Re: [WIP] pg_ping utility

From: Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [WIP] pg_ping utility
Date: 2012-11-16 17:48:01
Message-ID: CADAkt-gGnyNU+xODB6jdnUO-FVy0=eFd3Guw4rOcGMXAZDFUkg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > 3) Having an output close to what ping actually does would also be nice,
>> > the
>> > current output like Accepting/Rejecting Connections are not that
>>
>> Could you be more specific? Are you saying you don't want to see
>> accepting/rejecting info output?
>
> OK sorry.
>
> I meant something like that for an accessible server:
> $ pg_ping -c 3 -h server.com
> PING server.com (192.168.1.3)
> accept from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0 time=0.241 ms
> accept from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0 time=0.240 ms
> accept from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0 time=0.242 ms
>
> Like that for a rejected connection:
> reject from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0 time=0.241 ms
>
> Like that for a timeout:
> timeout from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0
> Then print 1 line for each ping taken to stdout.

How does icmp_seq fit into this? Or was that an oversight?

Also, in standard ping if you don't pass -c it will continue to loop
until interrupted. Would you suggest that pg_ping mimic that, or that
we add an additional flag for that behavior?

FWIW, I would use 'watch' with the existing output for cases that I
would need something like that.

> --
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com

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