On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Vik Fearing <vik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/06/16 15:32, Bertrand Paquet wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On an hot standby streaming server, is there any way to know, in SQL, to >> know the ip of current master ? > > No. > >> The solution I have is to read the recovery.conf file to find >> primary_conninfo, > > That is currently the only solution. There are plans to allow SQL > access to the parameters in recovery.conf (or to merge them into > postgresql.conf) but that's not currently possible. > It might not be a right way but how about using pg_read_file()? postgres(1)=# select regexp_replace(pg_read_file('recovery.conf'), '.*primary_conninfo = (.*)', '\1'); regexp_replace --------------------------------------------------- 'host=localhost port=5550 application_name=node1'+ (1 row) You can get the master server information via SQL from standby server. Regards, -- Masahiko Sawada -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general