Re: getting pid of backend

Kovacs Zoltan wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > Kovacs,
> > 
> > > Is there an easier method?
> > 
> > Much easier.  Take a look at $PGDATA/postmaster.pid
> 
> I mean the current pid number of the actual connection. Not the postmaster
> process, I need the pid of the currently running postgres. :-)

You are going to love this one:test=> create function getpid() returns int as '/shlib/libc.so',        'getpid'
languagec;CREATEtest=> select getpid(); getpid --------   2971(1 row)
 

You may need to modify the libc.so path.

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