Re: Enhance pg_stat_wal_receiver view to display connected host

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:10:12PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> > Ok, understood. As the libpq gives preference to hostaddr connection
> > parameter than host while connecting. How about going with one column
> > "remote_host" that displays either hostaddr(if exists) or hostname. So
> that
> > one column that displays the actual remote host to where it connected?
> >
> > Note : The one column approach for both host and hostaddr will depend on
> > how we go with PQhostaddr() function.
>
> Yeah, we don't want to begin a open battle for that.  Using one column as
> a first step would still be useful anyway.  If the discussion about
> PQhostaddr() comes to a result at some point, then it could make sense
> to integrate that with pg_stat_wal_receiver.  The problem with PQhost
> handling strangely multiple host values is inconsistent though.
>


I updated the pg_stat_wal_receiver patch with the new PQhost() function
behavior
and updated the view with two columns, (remote_server and remote_port)
instead
of three as earlier.

Updated patch attached.

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia