Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> 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. I think "well defined" is stretching it anyway. I see different behaviors (partially or fully qualified hostname) on my different Unix machines. --fqdn appears particularly useless, as Fedora 10 reports this: $ hostname --fqdn localhost.localdomain and my other machines don't recognize the switch at all. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers