Re: Adding Unix domain socket path and port to pg_stat_get_wal_senders()

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:19:01PM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
> application_name. I'm not sure if it solves your complain but Peter
> committed a patch [1] for v12 that distinguishes replicas in the same
> host via cluster_name.

Let's be honest, this is just a workaround.

> Socket has different semantic from TCP/UDP. We can't add socket
> information into client_addr unless we are prepared to break this view
> (client_addr has type inet and it would be necessary to change it to
> text). It could break a lot of applications.

client_addr does not seem the right place to store this information,
and it is already documented for years that NULL is used when using a
Unix socket. But I think that we could change *client_hostname* so as
the path name is reported instead of NULL when connecting through a
Unix domain socket, and there is no need to switch the field type for
that.

I agree with Ishii-san that it would be nice to close the gap here.
For pg_stat_wal_receiver, please note that sender_host reports
correctly the domain path when connecting locally.
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Michael