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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-01-04T13:05:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:54:37AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think more attention should be given to the libpq side of this patch;
> maybe have a 0001 with only the new libpq function, to easily verify
> that it does all it needs to do.  It needs docs for the new function in
> libpq.sgml; also I wonder if checking conn->status before reporting
> values is necessary; finally, has the application any good way to check
> that the values can be safely read after calling the new function?

Or instead of reinventing again the wheel, why not removing
remote_hostaddr, and fetch the wanted values from PQhost() and PQport()
after making sure that the connection status is good? There is no need
for a new API this way. And as bonus points, we can also rely on
defaults.
--
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.