Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> PostgreSQL forks a new backend process when a connection is
>   established, however. It sounds like that's what you want. Do
>   "SELECT pg_backend_pid()" to get the PID of the backend process
>   serving your connection.
>
>> That and other stat functions are documented here:
>   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/monitoring-stats.html
>
> I see. Thanks, that's very helpful. Does the pid/process stay the same
> across successive calls to text()? I'm guessing that successive calls
> to text() would take place within the same session, and therefore
> correspond to the same backend session.
>
> If not, how can I get it to return the pid before I start the actual
> query? In any case, I'll experiment with this.


you would connect:

conn = engine.connect()

check the PID:

pid = conn.execute("SELECT pg_backend_pid()").scalar()


then continue as needed:

conn.execute(text(...))




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