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From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
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Subject: Re: Querying the hostname of the server
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 03:33:13PM +0200, Péter Kovács wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a number of PostgreSQL servers which I often access through ssh
> tunnel with Pgadmin3. I would like to double check which one I have landed
> on (if the tunnel is really configured the way I want). Is there a way to
> query the hostname from the catalogs?

Hmm, that's a bit tricky, since I assume you're using a local db
connection inside the tunnel, so inet_server_addr() probably returns
null. If you're talking unix/linux machines, then /etc/hostname _should_
have the current hostname in it, so:

create temp table foo (t text);
copy foo from '/etc/hostname';
select * from foo;
drop table foo;

Should work.

Ross
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