On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:48:28AM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: > Subject pretty much says it all. Is there a way in a sql query to > have it return the server name and/or the server ip address of the > PostgreSQL server? Depends on the version of PostgreSQL. In 8.0 you can use inet_server_addr(): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-info.html Note that inet_server_addr() returns the IP address that you connected to, so it won't return all IP addresses of a multihomed host. Also, it will return NULL if you're connected via a local (Unix-domain) socket. If you're using an earlier version of PostgreSQL, or if you want more information that the standard functions provide, then you could write a function in a language like PL/Perl, PL/Tcl, PL/Python, etc. Example: CREATE FUNCTION hostname() RETURNS text AS ' use Sys::Hostname; return hostname; ' LANGUAGE plperlu; -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
