Re: Unique ID for current connection from C - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Shawn Garbett
Subject Re: Unique ID for current connection from C
Date
Msg-id 20050719213226.66348.qmail@web54406.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Unique ID for current connection from C  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Shawn Garbett <shawn_garbett@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I am exploring writing an extension in C to
> Postgres,
> > but I can't find how to get a unique number
> > identifying the current connection.
>
> There isn't a globally unique number.  If you're
> satisfied with
> something unique among active connections, I'd
> suggest backend PID.

That'll do it! Thanks, the alternatives to this
approach take many thousands of lins of code.

Shawn

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