Re: application_name backend (not) reporting back to the client : pgbouncer, PgSQL 16.1, pgbouncer 1.21.0

Achilleas Mantzios <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> writes:
> Hi again, I am puzzled with your observations, this is what I get with
> psql straight against PostgreSQL no pgbouncer involved :

> command :
> psql "postgresql://amantzio(at)localhost:5432/dynacom?application_name="

> ...
> public.S....is_superuser.on.S....application_name..S...&default_transaction_read_only.off.S....scram_iterations.4096.S....DateStyle.ISO,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I see the report of application_name with an empty-string value right
there.

> the client does not send the application_name

I do not know what you mean by that, but maybe your client code has
some special-case behavior for an empty string?

regards, tom lane