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Re: [9.1] pg_stat_get_backend_server_addr

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-05-28T14:21:23Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> ... indeed.  Is it worth burdening the pg_stats mechanism with this?
> >> The use case seems vanishingly thin.
> 
> > I am confused how this is different from inet_server_addr() and
> > inet_server_port().  
> 
> I think the point is to let someone find out *from another session*
> which server port number a particular session is using.  I fail to see
> a significant use case for that, though.

Uh, aren't they all using the same server port number, e.g. 5432?  Is
the issue different IP addresses for the same server?

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