Re: log_hostname and pg_stat_activity

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> On tis, 2011-01-18 at 19:24 -0500, Steve Singer wrote:
>>> However if I connect with a line in pg_hba that matches on an IP
>>> network then my client_hostname is always null unless log_hostname is
>>> set to true.  This is consistent with the behavior you describe but I
>>> think the average user will find it a bit confusing.  Having a column
>>> that is always null unless a GUC is set is less than ideal but I
>>> understand why log_hostname isn't on by default.
>>
>> Well, we have all these track_* variables, which also control what
>> appears in the statistics views.
>>
>> After thinking about this some more, I think it might be better to be
>> less cute and forget about the interaction with the pg_hba.conf hostname
>> behavior.  That is, the host name is set if and only if log_hostname is
>> on.
>
> +1 for doing it that way.

I think there are no outstanding issues with this patch of any
significance, so I'm marking it Ready for Committer.

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