Re: Application name patch - v3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Application name patch - v3
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Msg-id 200911251422.43269.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Application name patch - v3  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: Application name patch - v3
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Hi,

On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:07:13 Dave Page wrote:
> Updated patch attached. Per discussion, this:
> 
> - Changes the envvar name to PGAPPNAME
> - Removes support for setting application_name in the startup packet,
> and instead sends an explicit SET command as part of the connection
> setup in PQconnectPoll. In order to avoid adding to the
> application-visible connection states, this is overloaded on the
> CONNECTION_SETENV state which is only used in the v2 protocol at
> present and seems like an ideal fit for such a similar use.
> 
> Other features are as per the last version.
One more question: Per my reading of the discussion (which very well might be 
flawed), wasnt the plan to limit the availale characters in the application 
name to ascii?

Greetings,

Andres


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