Re: Adding connection id in the startup message

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Satyanarayana Narlapuram <Satyanarayana(dot)Narlapuram(at)microsoft(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding connection id in the startup message
Date: 2017-06-15 13:38:37
Message-ID: 20170615133837.GR1769@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 6/15/17 03:11, Satyanarayana Narlapuram wrote:
> > Client adds a connection id in the startup message and send it to the
> > server it is trying to connect to. Proxy logs the connection id
> > information in its logs, and passes it to the server. Server logs the
> > connection Id in the server log, and set it in the GUC variable
> > (ConnectionId).
>
> If you're using pgbouncer or similar, then it might reuse an already
> existing connection, so your connection ID wouldn't be passed on.

This tends to be what people (as pgbouncer does) use application_name
for.

Thanks!

Stephen

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