On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Megan <nagemnna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I'm running postgres 9.2.5 with streaming replication. Is there a way to
> tell which database is the master other then the presence or lack of
> presence of the recovery.conf file?
You can use pg_is_in_recovery().
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-RECOVERY-CONTROL
This function returns false in the master, but returns true in the standby.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao