Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I think any serious tools are now using pg_stat_activity. I saw we make
> > the change in 8.4 and just document it. I wouldn't make the change for
> > Oracle but rather for clarity.
>
> I think this is a non-solution, because it fails to guarantee that the
> process title contains nothing that will confuse Oracle. As somebody
> already pointed out, it's possible to have parens in a user or database
> name ... and for that matter, how sure are we that parens are the only
> trouble case? You'll be potentially breaking scripts that work now,
> in order to reduce but not eliminate the problem with Oracle.
>
> IMHO the right fix is the one that was touched on upthread: have
> DBI-Link temporarily install a plain-vanilla, punctuation-free process
> title (eg, just "postgres") while starting an Oracle connection.
I was suggesting the colon rather to be clearer, not as an Oracle
fix.
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