getting client_addr not as a superuser - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Михаил
Subject getting client_addr not as a superuser
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Msg-id 1423570870.915348087@f342.i.mail.ru
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] Vs NULL  (Florent Guillaume <fg@nuxeo.com>)
Responses Re: getting client_addr not as a superuser  (Jov <amutu@amutu.com>)
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Hi all,
I have a PG 9.3 and a streaming replication and I need standby ip address in the monitoring. To get that i can run 

select client_addr from pg_stat_replication

but i have to connect as a superuser what's not desirable.

As i see in that view, it uses two functions: pg_stat_get_activity and pg_stat_get_wal_senders and one table pg_authid. As i don't need role information, i've cutted the table from the query and got the following query:

SELECT s.pid, s.client_addr
   FROM pg_stat_get_activity(NULL::integer) s(datid, pid, usesysid, application_name, state, query, waiting, xact_start, query_start, backend_start, state_change, client_addr, client_hostname, client_port)
               ,pg_stat_get_wal_senders() w(pid, state, sent_location, write_location, flush_location, replay_location, sync_priority, sync_state)
 WHERE s.pid = w.pid;
When i run it as a superuser, everything is ok, when i run it as an ordinary user, the client_addr is NULL. As the function pg_stat_get_wal_senders() returns the result, the problem is in receiving the address from pg_stat_get_activity.

Using/granting pg_stat_get_backend_client_addr() is not solving the problem.

Is there any way to get client_addr value running not as a superuser?


Regards, Mikhail

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