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 <reeds...@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. reeds...@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 >
