Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users
Date
Msg-id 22724.1390924190@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
List pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> The problem with that is that it doesn't just hide it. It removes the
> debugging information altogether. Even the administrator of the
> application itself and the DBA won't have this information. The reason
> the Gem is putting that information in application_name is precisely
> because it's useful. In fact it was a patch from Heroku that added
> that information to application_name in the first place because it's
> useful.

Oh really.  So, to clean up after their own ill-considered decision,
they'd like to take useful information away from everybody.
        regards, tom lane



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Christian Kruse
Date:
Subject: Suspicion of a compiler bug in clang: using ternary operator in ereport()
Next
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore