Hi Scott,
Thanks for the info. I did tried
select pg_show_all_settings()
But this function has a filter based on a user privilege. As postgres
user, I got 187 rows return and can see parameter like data_directory with
its OS path. But as a non admin user, I got 176 rows return and all the
parameters that would point to a directory on the OS are not shown due to
privilege.
Louis.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Whitney [mailto:swhitney@journyx.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:19 PM
To: 'Julio Leyva'; louis.lam@guardium.com; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] How to tell what OS PostgreSQL is installed on.
Another option might be to look in the
select pg_show_all_settings() for the ident_file.
If the ident file is a DOS path (aka c:\somewhere\some dir\some file), you
know you're on a Windows-based system. If it's a UNIX path, select
version()
will tell you specifically.
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Julio Leyva
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:14 PM
To: louis.lam@guardium.com; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to tell what OS PostgreSQL is installed on.
as postgres user
psql -c "select version()";
________________________________
From: louis.lam@guardium.com
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:58:33 -0400
Subject: [ADMIN] How to tell what OS PostgreSQL is installed on.
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Hi,
I have a need to find out what OS PostgreSQL is running under. I need to
be
able to query the database or send a command and figure it out. I also
do
not have super user permission to do this. All I want to know is if the
PostgreSQL I am connected to is running from Windows or Non Windows.
I could do "Show data_directory" and parse the result, but this require
superuser permission.
I tried select version() also. Under Windows OS, I got this:
version
---------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.3.6, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400
Does anyone know if Visual C++ is use to only compile PostgreSQL for
Windows? Or can other compiler be use? If Visual C++ is always use for
Windows and Windows only then this is very good information I can use.
I know on RedHat, I got this.
version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
--------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.3.7 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
3.4.6
20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-10)
And on Solaris I got this.
-----------------
PostgreSQL 8.1.11 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10, compiled by
/ws/on10-tools/SUNWspro/SOS8/bin/cc -Xa
(1 row)
Thank you all in advance for your help.
Louis Lam
