Re: how to get id of currently executed query?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> writes:
> so - as you can see in one query, the value changes in plpgsql. and i need some
> id that will be unchanged within one end-user-supplied query.

AFAIR, the only state that's guaranteed to work like that is
statement_timestamp.  Of course you have to worry whether your machine
is fast enough to do more than one client interaction within whatever
the clock resolution is.

I think the real question here is why you want this behavior at all;
to me it smells of not having thought the problem through correctly.
As an example of why this bothers me: what if the user's query is
rewritten into several queries by a RULE?  Should you consider each
of those to be a separate user-issued SQL command?  Does your answer
change if you know that the user himself prepared the RULE?  (Do you
think users will be happy if statement X followed by statement Y
acts differently in a rule than elsewhere?)

			regards, tom lane