Merge pull request #1486 from philipowen/feature/pgsql-extra-info

check_pgsql: Add extra output

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/check_pgsql.c b/plugins/check_pgsql.c
index 94a03b21..61990335 100644
--- a/plugins/check_pgsql.c
+++ b/plugins/check_pgsql.c
@@ -517,7 +517,10 @@ print_help (void)
         printf (" %s\n", _("connecting to the server. The result from the query has to be numeric."));
         printf (" %s\n", _("Multiple SQL commands, separated by semicolon, are allowed but the result "));
         printf (" %s\n", _("of the last command is taken into account only. The value of the first"));
-        printf (" %s\n\n", _("column in the first row is used as the check result."));
+        printf (" %s\n", _("column in the first row is used as the check result. If a second column is"));
+        printf (" %s\n", _("present in the result set, this is added to the plugin output with a"));
+        printf (" %s\n", _("prefix of \"Extra Info:\". This information can be displayed in the system"));
+        printf (" %s\n\n", _("executing the plugin."));
 
         printf (" %s\n", _("See the chapter \"Monitoring Database Activity\" of the PostgreSQL manual"));
         printf (" %s\n\n", _("for details about how to access internal statistics of the database server."));
@@ -557,6 +560,7 @@ do_query (PGconn *conn, char *query)
         PGresult *res;
 
         char *val_str;
+        char *extra_info;
         double value;
 
         char *endptr = NULL;
@@ -621,6 +625,12 @@ do_query (PGconn *conn, char *query)
         printf ("|query=%f;%s;%s;;\n", value,
                         query_warning ? query_warning : "",
                         query_critical ? query_critical : "");
+        if (PQnfields (res) > 1) {
+                extra_info = PQgetvalue (res, 0, 1);
+                if (extra_info != NULL) {
+                        printf ("Extra Info: %s\n", extra_info);
+                }
+        }
         return my_status;
 }