I am sure a lot of us have found ourselves in a situation where we need to wait for a service to be ready. I don’t mean the VM or container is running. I mean the service is up and running and fully functional.
Postgres provides an easy to use command called pg_isready that allows us to know exactly when postgres is ready to accept connections.
pg_isready is a utility for checking the connection status of a PostgreSQL database server. The exit status specifies the result of the connection check. (taken from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/app-pg-isready.html)
Example Script
Here is a simple shell script where we poll the postgres service every 2 seconds until it is ready to accept connections.
#!/bin/sh
pg_uri="postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/shield"
# make sure pg is ready to accept connections
until pg_isready -h postgres-host -p 5432 -U postgres
do
echo "Waiting for postgres at: $pg_uri"
sleep 2;
done
# Now able to connect to postgres
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