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Taimoor ZaeemandSteve Chavez a9a1763328 add: --ready flag for postgrest healthcheck
The `--ready` flag is a wrapper around the admin server
`/ready` request. This is done through using an http client
library in postgrest.

Signed-off-by: Taimoor Zaeem <taimoorzaeem@gmail.com>
2025-09-28 18:01:10 -05:00

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.. _cli:
CLI
===
PostgREST provides a CLI with the options listed below:
.. code:: text
Usage: postgrest [-v|--version] [-e|--example] [--dump-config | --dump-schema | --ready]
[FILENAME]
PostgREST / create a REST API to an existing Postgres
database
Available options:
-h,--help Show this help text
-v,--version Show the version information
-e,--example Show an example configuration file
--dump-config Dump loaded configuration and exit
--dump-schema Dump loaded schema as JSON and exit (for debugging,
output structure is unstable)
--ready Checks the health of PostgREST by doing a request on
the admin server /ready endpoint
FILENAME Path to configuration file
FILENAME
--------
Runs PostgREST with the given :ref:`file_config`.
Help
----
.. code:: bash
$ postgrest --help
Shows all the options available.
Version
-------
.. code:: bash
$ postgrest --version
Prints the PostgREST version.
Example
-------
.. code:: bash
$ postgrest --example
Shows example configuration settings.
Dump Config
-----------
.. code:: bash
$ postgrest --dump-config
Dumps the loaded :ref:`configuration` values, considering the configuration file, environment variables and :ref:`in_db_config`.
Dump Schema
-----------
.. code:: bash
$ postgrest --dump-schema
Dumps the schema cache in JSON format.
Ready Flag
----------
Makes a request to the ``/ready`` endpoint of the :ref:`admin_server`. It exits with a return code of ``0`` on success and ``1`` on failure.
.. code-block:: bash
$ postgrest --ready
OK: http://localhost:3001/ready
.. note::
The ``--ready`` flag cannot be used when :ref:`server-host` is configured with special hostnames. We suggest to change it to ``localhost``.