Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.3/8.6.3) with SMTP id KAA24446 for postgres-dist; Thu, 4 Nov 1993 10:04:36 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199311041804.KAA24446@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.3/8.6.3) with SMTP id KAA24437; Thu, 4 Nov 1993 10:04:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199311041804.KAA24437@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: PostGres Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (PostGres Mail Group) Subject: Re: Detecting no postmaster In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 4 Nov 1993 18:14:21 +1100 (EST) <199311040714.AA23883@guinevere.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 93 10:04:35 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-dist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 93 10:04:36 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp PostGres writes: > I am wondering whether there is any way to detect that > a postmaster is not running on a given host. look at what the routine src/libpq/fe-pqexec.c:EstablishComm does. you could also write a half-page of code that does a connect(2) to the well-known port.. -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki