<p dir="ltr"><br /> On Dec 19, 2012 4:43 AM, "Josh Berkus" <<a
href="mailto:josh@agliodbs.com">josh@agliodbs.com</a>>wrote:<br /> ><br /> > Hackers,<br /> ><br /> >
Currentlywe can see each master's current replicas using<br /> > pg_stat_replication. However, there is no way from
areplica, that I<br /> > know of, to figure out who its master is other than to look at<br /> > recovery.conf.<br
/>><br /> > We should probably have a function, like pg_replication_master(), which<br /> > gives the host
addressof the current master. This would help DBAs for<br /> > large replication clusters a lot. Obviously, this
wouldonly work in<br /> > streaming.<br /><p dir="ltr">This sounds like my previous suggestion of returning the
primaryconninfo value, but with just ip. That one came with a pretty bad patch, and was later postponed until we folded
recovery.confinto the main configuration file parsing. I'm not really sure what happened to that project? (the
configurationfile one) <p dir="ltr">/Magnus
