Re: viewing the slaves which are connected to a master in streaming replication

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Raghavendra
<raghavendra(dot)rao(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> I've got a postgres-9.2.x cluster, doing streaming replication to
>> several hot standby servers. I'd like to be able to query the master
>> to see the hostname or IP address of each connected streaming
>> replication standby server.
>>
>> I know that I can view which servers are connected to the master by
>> looking at 'ps' output, grepping for 'wal sender process' for the IP
>> address of each standby server that is currently connected. However,
>> I was hoping that there was a more elegant method for obtaining this
>> information? I've googled a bit, and haven't found any SQL magic to
>> do it, but perhaps I'm just not searching for the right thing?
>>
>> thanks
>>
> You can check with pg_stat_replication for replicating server's information.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/monitoring-stats.html

awesome, thanks, that's exactly what I was seeking.