pg_isready -h db.example.com

Category: Databases & SQL

pg_isready -h db.example.com

Check if PostgreSQL accepts connections

A lightweight health check that prints accepting connections or a failure reason and returns exit code 0 when ready. Useful in scripts and container healthchecks. Related: psql -c 'SELECT 1;' for a full round trip.
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