Re: [HACKERS] session id and global storage

[Rodrigo De Leon]

Hi, I cant find any function, which tells me something like session
id. Is there something like that? I need it in my AM, because I need
to know, if something which I wrote in file was written in this
current session or previously.


How about
select procpid||' '||backend_start from pg_stat_activity;
Yours,
Laurenz Albe


Something like this would be maybe possible, but this select can
return more rows, when the user is connected with more instances...

David Hoksza


You could do this:

SELECT procpid||' '||backend_start
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE datname = current_database()
AND usename = session_user
AND client_addr = inet_client_addr()
AND client_port = inet_client_port();

Regards,

Rodrigo

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Re: [HACKERS] session id and global storage

[Rodrigo De Leon]

That's pretty roundabout. We already expose (hex coded) pid.starttime as
a session identifier in log_line_prefix (it's the %c escape) so I don't
see any reason not to provide either the same thing directly in a
function, or at least to expose the backend pid.


That would be nice.

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