| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Harald Armin Massa <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Application name patch - v2 |
| Date: | 2009-10-21 15:29:29 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070910210829h481ebd6g18e693af43a75061@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> FWIW, I would prefer PGAPPNAME to PGAPPLICATIONNAME which is what
>
>> We don't usually use abbreviations, so how about PGCLIENTNAME or some such?
>
> Not sure I believe that argument. Among the set of existing libpq
> environment variables I see
>
> PGHOSTADDR
> PGSSLCERT
> PGSSLCRL
> PGKRBSRVNAME
> PGTZ
> PGSYSCONFDIR
>
> so it can hardly be said that there's a policy of avoiding
> abbreviations. PGCLIENTNAME would be better than PGAPPLICATIONNAME
> I guess, but I still prefer the other.
I also like PGAPPNAME better, for the same reasons as Tom.
...Robert
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