After someone in IRC asked if there was an equivalent to MySQL's
server_id, it was noted that we do have a system identifier but it's not
very accessible.
The attached patch implements a pg_system_identifier() function that
exposes it.
Shall I add this to the next commitfest?
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Vik
*** a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
***************
*** 13473,13478 **** SELECT * FROM pg_ls_dir('.') WITH ORDINALITY AS t(ls,n);
--- 13473,13484 ----
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><literal><function>pg_system_identifier()</function></literal></entry>
+ <entry><type>text</type></entry>
+ <entry>system identifier for the database cluster</entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry><literal><function>pg_trigger_depth()</function></literal></entry>
<entry><type>int</type></entry>
<entry>current nesting level of <productname>PostgreSQL</> triggers
*** a/src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c
--- b/src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c
***************
*** 35,40 ****
--- 35,50 ----
static void validate_xlog_location(char *str);
+ /*
+ * pg_system_identifier
+ */
+ Datum
+ pg_system_identifier(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+ {
+ char ret[32];
+ sprintf(ret, UINT64_FORMAT, GetSystemIdentifier());
+ PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(cstring_to_text(ret));
+ }
/*
* pg_start_backup: set up for taking an on-line backup dump
*** a/src/include/access/xlog_fn.h
--- b/src/include/access/xlog_fn.h
***************
*** 13,18 ****
--- 13,19 ----
#include "fmgr.h"
+ extern Datum pg_system_identifier(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
extern Datum pg_start_backup(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
extern Datum pg_stop_backup(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
extern Datum pg_switch_xlog(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
*** a/src/include/catalog/catversion.h
--- b/src/include/catalog/catversion.h
***************
*** 53,58 ****
--- 53,59 ----
*/
/* yyyymmddN */
+ /* needs bump */
#define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201307221
#endif
*** a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
--- b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
***************
*** 2954,2959 **** DATA(insert OID = 2171 ( pg_cancel_backend PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f f t f v
--- 2954,2961 ----
DESCR("cancel a server process' current query");
DATA(insert OID = 2096 ( pg_terminate_backend PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f f t f v 1 0 16 "23" _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ pg_terminate_backend _null_ _null_ _null_ ));
DESCR("terminate a server process");
+ DATA(insert OID = 3179 ( pg_system_identifier PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f f f f i 0 0 25 "" _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ pg_system_identifier _null_ _null_ _null_ ));
+ DESCR("database system identifier");
DATA(insert OID = 2172 ( pg_start_backup PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f f t f v 2 0 25 "25 16" _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ pg_start_backup _null_ _null_ _null_ ));
DESCR("prepare for taking an online backup");
DATA(insert OID = 2173 ( pg_stop_backup PGNSP PGUID 12 1 0 0 0 f f f f t f v 0 0 25 "" _null_ _null_ _null_ _null_ pg_stop_backup _null_ _null_ _null_ ));
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