Re: Really unique session ID - PID + connection timestamp?

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Durumdara <durumdara(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Really unique session ID - PID + connection timestamp?
Date: 2016-04-09 10:07:08
Message-ID: 20160409100708.GC22154@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Durumdara 2016-04-09 <CAEcMXhkyUMmT3wiKnyWwSK1Xv3gFot46AoTM+6JxWhya3dGWjg(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> In MS the session id is smallint, so it can repeats after server restarts,
> but my coll. found a "session creation timestamp".
> This is a key which unique.
> With this we can check for died sessions and we can clean their records.
>
> We want create same mechanism.
> I know there are adv. locks in PG, but I want to use session id.
>
> This could be:
> pg_backend_pid()
>
> May pid repeats.
> Where I can get timestamp or some other unique data with I can create a
> combined primary key?

Btw, what you are describing is exactly what %c in log_line_prefix
does.

Christoph

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