On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:39 AM Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > On 2/3/21 7:12 AM, Bharath Rupireddy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can we have a new function, say pg_postgres_pid(), to return > > postmaster PID similar to pg_backend_pid()? At times, it will be > > Curious question - why do you actually need PID of the postmaster? For > debugging, I'd say it's not quite necessary - you can just attach a > debugger to the backend and print the PostmasterPid directly. Or am I > missing something?
But sometimes we may also have to debug postmaster code, on different platforms maybe. I don't know how the postmaster pid from the user perspective will be useful in customer environments and I can't think of other usages of the pg_postgres_pid(). With Regards, Bharath Rupireddy. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
