Re: Application name patch - v2

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:16:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > Also, how many platforms can't we do this on? If we have BSD and
> > Windows covered already. on linux, I believe you can easily read it
> > out of /proc/self/cmdline, no?
>
> Writing a pile of platform-specific code for this is simply insane from
> a support point of view. The feature is NOT worth it. Especially not
> since the typical result will be something quite uninformative like
> "psql" or "java". The cases that are actually useful are the ones where
> the application sets it. I don't think we should have a default at all
> --- you don't set it, you don't get a name.

-1

I'd like a default, especially for psql, to help identify interactive sessions.

-dg

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