On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:38 AM, gorsa <gorsa(dot)1972(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> hi all
> is there a way to get a unique identifier for a client? something like
> a machine id. session_user does not seem to work since a user can log
> on to many workstations. been through the list so i'm not searching
> for getting the ip address since the list said something like it's not
> supported in unix-sockets, though i'll take it since i'm using
> postgres in windows environment. thanks in advance :)
Does this unique identifier need to be something with permanence from
one connection to the next? If not, then select * from
pg_stat_activity should have uniquely identifying information in it.