Re: [9.1] pg_stat_get_backend_server_addr

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-05-28T14:19:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.

			regards, tom lane