Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> ps auxww | grep postgres:
>> ... eyeball determination of correct PID ...
> You can also do 'select pg_backend_pid();' from psql... I know that's
> there on 8.1, though I recall this was an 8.0 discussion and I *think*
> it's there too but not 100% sure.
Good thought. I've been doing it via ps since forever, but
pg_backend_pid is more foolproof (and it seems to have been in since
7.3, so that's not a problem).
regards, tom lane