Re: Getting process id of a connection?

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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:59:47 -0800
"Webb Sprague" <webb(dot)sprague(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to determine the pid of a database connection from
> within that connection?
>
> As a hypothetical example, I would like to be able to do the
> following:
>
> $ps x
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 11674 ? S 0:00 sshd: webbs(at)pts/1
> 11675 pts/1 Ss 0:00 -bash
> 11682 pts/1 T 0:00 psql
> 11685 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps x
>
> psql=# select CURRENT_PID;
> 11682
>
> I want this so that I can log the psycopg2 connection pid, and kill it
> to test reconnection code.

postgres=# select procpid from pg_stat_activity;
procpid
- ---------
30851
17510
4496
20237
1305
(5 rows)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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