Re: Unique ID for current connection from C

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Shawn Garbett <shawn_garbett(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I am exploring writing an extension in C to
> Postgres,
> > but I can't find how to get a unique number
> > identifying the current connection.
>
> There isn't a globally unique number. If you're
> satisfied with
> something unique among active connections, I'd
> suggest backend PID.

That'll do it! Thanks, the alternatives to this
approach take many thousands of lins of code.

Shawn

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