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From: Gunnar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgping?
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:22:08 +0100
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On 12/13/25 15:54, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, December 12, 2025, Gunnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>     my latest experience with pg_isready reminded me that it only
>     works on a general level (cluster ready generally) though.
>     If you include a database to the command it still reports true
>     even if the database you want to address does not exist.
>
>     That said I remember that I read this was broken since ...
>     forever, which means nobody cares.
>
>
> It isn’t broken - it is working precisely as intended and required for 
> the use cases it’s meant to solve.  That’s why no one is fixing it.  
> These people that want it to solve additional use cases need to step 
> up and implement some new features for it.

hm, one might argue, that if the use case 'pg_isready -d database' is 
mentioned in the manual this could be seen as the aspiration, or maybe 
even commitment to that feature.
Even the description of pg_isready --help mentions a "connection check 
to a database", not a cluster.

Do I misinterpret the manual/help? If that was the case my next question 
was ... what is the purpose of the option -d, --dbname=DBNAME ?

all best ... Gunnar

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