Re: Enhance pg_stat_wal_receiver view to display connected host

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-01-04T00:53:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:48:07PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
> Last patch has undefined symbol, corrected patch attached.

+	memset(walrcv->host, 0, NAMEDATALEN);
+	if (host)
+		strlcpy((char *) walrcv->host, host, NAMEDATALEN);
+
+	memset(walrcv->hostaddr, 0, NAMEDATALEN);
+	if (hostaddr)
+		strlcpy((char *) walrcv->hostaddr, hostaddr, NAMEDATALEN);
You need to use NI_MAXHOST for both things here.

+    <row>
+     <entry><structfield>remote_hostname</structfield></entry>
+     <entry><type>text</type></entry>
+     <entry>Host name of the PostgreSQL instance this WAL receiver is connected to</entry>
+    </row>
PostgreSQL is usualy referred to with the <productname> markup. Those
should be split on multiple lines. The doc changes are nits though.

I have done some testing with this patch with primary_conninfo using
multiple values of host and port, and the correct values are being
reported, which is a nice feature.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Enhance pg_stat_wal_receiver view to display host and port of sender server.

  2. Allow multiple hostaddrs to go with multiple hostnames.

  3. libpq: Fix inadvertent change in PQhost() behavior.

  4. libpq: Allow connection strings and URIs to specify multiple hosts.