Re: Stephen Frost 2016-04-09 <20160409115712.GT10850@tamriel.snowman.net>
> > Btw, what you are describing is exactly what %c in log_line_prefix
> > does.
>
> That's not currently exposed at an SQL level anywhere though, is it?
> Perhaps we should add a way to get that. Another thought would be to
> essentially expose 'log_line_prefix()' at the SQL level but I'm not sure
> that generally makes sense. We could also have an explicit function to
> get MyStartTime, similar to pg_backend_pid().
I don't see how log_line_prefix() would make sense, but
pg_session_identifier() (= %c) would make sense to have, in the same
way that we have pg_backend_pid(), so the current session could be
located in the logs. (Not sure if pg_session_identifier shouldn't also
be a pg_stat_activity column, but that might be overkill. Maybe
SELECT pg_session_identifier(pid) from pg_stat_activity; ?)
MyStartTime is probably too specific.
Christoph
