Thread: current database?

hi,
 when i do \c - postgres tells me which
database i'm currently connected to.  where
does it get this info?  i'd like to use it
in a program.

TIA,
  mikeo

mikeo writes:

>  when i do \c - postgres tells me which
> database i'm currently connected to.  where
> does it get this info?  i'd like to use it
> in a program.

It remembers this information from when you first connected, e.g., `psql
-d template1'.

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mikeo <mikeo@spectrumtelecorp.com> writes:
>  when i do \c - postgres tells me which
> database i'm currently connected to.  where
> does it get this info?  i'd like to use it
> in a program.

If you're working directly with libpq, then PQdb() et al return
the connection parameters used to create the current PGconn object.

            regards, tom lane