Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.com> writes: > Can we have a new function, say pg_postgres_pid(), to return > postmaster PID similar to pg_backend_pid()?
I'm disinclined to think that this is a good idea from a security perspective. Maybe if it's superuser-only it'd be ok (since a superuser would have other routes to discovering the value anyway). regards, tom lane