Re: fallback_application_name and pgbench

Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> By default, the application_name of pgbench is "[unknown]". But I think
> that pgbench should use fallback_application_name as psql, pg_dump,
> etc does. Is it worth creating the patch?

If we will take care of fallback_application_name for contrib modules,
we need to fix not only "pgbench" but also "oid2name" and "dblink".
I think those fixes would be worth; at least for telling third-party
developers to handle the new parameter.

It might be better to set fallback_application_name automatically
in libpq, but it requires argv[0] away from main() function.
GetModuleFilename() is available on Windows for the purpose,
but I don't know what API is available on other platforms.

Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center