From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: S. Bob <sbob@quadratum-braccas.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Unique cluster / instance identifier?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:03:34 +0000
Message-ID: <87r2c5htm3.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92d53982-cf1d-ce3f-c541-60a252f85aef@quadratum-braccas.com>
References: <92d53982-cf1d-ce3f-c541-60a252f85aef@quadratum-braccas.com>
>>>>> "S" == S Bob <sbob@quadratum-braccas.com> writes:
S> Hi all;
S> Does PostgreSQL store a unique cluster or instance identifier that
S> we can access to identify our instances?
Yes. But it's not easy to get at: it's the "Database system identifier"
shown in the output of pg_controldata. (pg12+ will have a function to
get it from SQL, but released versions don't.)
e.g.
Database system identifier: 6659016342798875639
The number is mostly generated from the time the instance was created,
with some bits modified. So for example:
$ perl -le 'print scalar gmtime +(shift >> 32)' 6659016342798875639
Sun Feb 17 17:04:21 2019
PG uses this internally to make sure that replication never tries to
apply WAL records generated on one system to a different system.
Physical replication secondary systems share the primary's system
identifier since they always originate as a copy (via base backup) of
the primary.
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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