X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CAA9DC8D9 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:42:59 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86124-10 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:42:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0FC9DC8AA for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:42:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from toby.dreamhost.com (toby.dreamhost.com [66.33.193.58]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E345AF035 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:42:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (p5498D1CD.dip.t-dialin.net [84.152.209.205]) by toby.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D4515EA2B for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:42:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Detecting postgres servers From: Murray Cumming To: pgsql-interfaces In-Reply-To: <1132421658.10562.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1132421658.10562.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:42:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1136925763.20493.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/17 X-Sequence-Number: 5933 On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:34 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > Is there any way, without a username and password, to > 1. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host on a > certain port. > 2. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host. > 3. Detect whether a Postgres server is running somewhere on the local > network, via some bonjour/rendezvous/avahi/howl-type thing? Does anybody have any ideas about this? Is a patch to add discovery via avahi likely to be accepted? -- Murray Cumming murrayc@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com