Re: Application name patch - v3

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Application name patch - v3
Date: 2009-11-25 13:22:43
Message-ID: 200911251422.43269.andres@anarazel.de
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Hi,

On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:07:13 Dave Page wrote:
> Updated patch attached. Per discussion, this:
>
> - Changes the envvar name to PGAPPNAME
> - Removes support for setting application_name in the startup packet,
> and instead sends an explicit SET command as part of the connection
> setup in PQconnectPoll. In order to avoid adding to the
> application-visible connection states, this is overloaded on the
> CONNECTION_SETENV state which is only used in the v2 protocol at
> present and seems like an ideal fit for such a similar use.
>
> Other features are as per the last version.
One more question: Per my reading of the discussion (which very well might be
flawed), wasnt the plan to limit the availale characters in the application
name to ascii?

Greetings,

Andres

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