Re: Problem with accesing Oracle from plperlu functionwhen using remote pg client. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jonah H. Harris escribió:

> On connection, the Oracle client sends the current application name to the
> Oracle server (which is listed in the V$SESSION view); in the case of
> Postgres, the program name is the current backend process name text.
> Because Oracle picks up Postgres' backend text, "postgres: www postgres
> 192.168.1.1(13243)", the (13243) screws up Oracle's TNS parser which
> prevents it from resolving the connection.  This doesn't happen when you're
> connected to PG locally, because the backend text is, "postgres: www
> postgres [local]".

Wow, that's a really idiotic thing for Oracle to do.

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