Re: log_hostname and pg_stat_activity

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On tis, 2011-01-18 at 19:24 -0500, Steve Singer wrote:
>> However if I connect with a line in pg_hba that matches on an IP
>> network then my client_hostname is always null unless log_hostname is
>> set to true.  This is consistent with the behavior you describe but I
>> think the average user will find it a bit confusing.  Having a column
>> that is always null unless a GUC is set is less than ideal but I
>> understand why log_hostname isn't on by default.
>
> Well, we have all these track_* variables, which also control what
> appears in the statistics views.
>
> After thinking about this some more, I think it might be better to be
> less cute and forget about the interaction with the pg_hba.conf hostname
> behavior.  That is, the host name is set if and only if log_hostname is
> on.

+1 for doing it that way.

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