Re: How to find the primary server of a hot standby server? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Shoaib Mir
Subject Re: How to find the primary server of a hot standby server?
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In response to Re: How to find the primary server of a hot standby server?  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
Le 14/10/2010 23:18, Rudolf van der Leeden a écrit :
> [...]
> quick question to the PG 9 community.
>
> I can query a hot standby server if recovery is still active using
> the administration function pg_is_in_recovery(). Is there also a way
> to query for the 'primary server', i.e. which server is delivering
> the WAL records?
>
> I'd like to monitor a bunch of standby servers in terms of
> configuration and operation.
>

There's no "SQL" way to know this, AFAICT. But I would love to be proven
wrong: I would be able to add this info to pgAdmin, which would be great.



What about doing a query like:

show wal_level; 

If it shows hot_standby then that server should have been setup as master. As an extra step you can also check for archive_mode as well if its enabled or not.
 
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