On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009 14:46:32 Greg Stark wrote: >> Regarding using the hostname of the system... There's no such thing. >> Interfaces have names, hosts can have multiple interfaces so the can >> have multiple names... > > But there is `hostname` and `hostname --fqdn`, both of which are well-defined > independent of a connection.
But they aren't guaranteed to return anything useful, and IME often don't. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
