That certainly looks like it! Thanks! - DAP
>-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:47 PM >To: Bruno Wolff III; David Parker; postgres general >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] SQL call to get pid of current connection > >On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 17:04:22 -0400, >> David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Is there a function call that will return the pid of the postgres >> > process associated with the current client connection? >> >> I thought I remembered seeing one, but I looked through the >> development docs and didn't see a function or a GUC variable >with that information. > >Are you looking for pg_backend_pid()? It's documented in the >"Statistics Collector" section of the "Monitoring Database Activity" >chapter; it's been around since 7.3: > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/release-7-3.html >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/monitoring-stats.html >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/monitoring-stats.html >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/monitoring-stats.html > >-- >Michael Fuhr >http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
