Re: Totally weird behaviour in org.postgresql.Driver

peter wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the tip! What adjustments exactly did you
>> have to make? I
>> just make every user to log on with different PG username. Are
>> there any
>> other options?
>>
>> It's fairly unusual to have a tomcat application of any size login to
>> the db as the user. Could you share the reason why ?
>>
>
> The app is actually middleware for Adobe Flex frontend and PG backend,
> not a regular web app. The architecture requires PG to know which user
> has connected (lots of heavy lifting takes place in PG), and we so far
> havent found any other way how to let PG know which user has connected.
> The only alternative was to supply user ID in every PG function call but
> that is messy and introduces it's own limitations as well. If you have
> any suggestions I'm all ears! ;)

Set a user variable after you've obtained a connection from the pool,
and use that to log user-specific values. That way, you maintain the
benefits of connection pools, but can still identify individual users.

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Guy Rouillier