From: Péter Kovács <maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Querying the hostname of the server
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:33:38 +0200
Message-ID: <i2zfdeb32eb1004300733rcbe5a4e3kffde4eb2e92bb966@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100430141404.GB28614@rice.edu>
References: <y2yfdeb32eb1004300633rf3a40e7g15a1d07b93f132dd@mail.gmail.com>
<20100430141404.GB28614@rice.edu>
Thank you, Ross!
inet_server_addr() returns the correct IP address in this case. I am not
sure why... The tunnel goes through at least one port-forwarding node, but I
am not sure this makes postgresql see the connection any less local.
Thanks
Peter
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>wrote:
> 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
> --
> Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reedstrm@rice.edu
> Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166
> The Connexions Project http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665
> Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005
> GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE
>
> --
> Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org)
> To make changes to your subscription:
> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
>
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Querying the hostname of the server
In-Reply-To: <i2zfdeb32eb1004300733rcbe5a4e3kffde4eb2e92bb966@mail.gmail.com>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox