Re: Client application name - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Client application name
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Msg-id 937d27e10910130813s3b15f83cjf0e4e8cc6e2a71d4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Client application name  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: Client application name
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>
>> The attached patch is a first quick cut of the basic functionality to
>> do this. Currently, it makes the following changes:
>
> Couple of thoughts,
>
> - should we use argv[0] automatically in libpq unless overridden?

How can I get to it from libpq? I could use getprogname() if present.

> - should we reject funny chars such as \n? (hopefully \0 won't be a
> problem)

Is there any need? I can't see that it would do any harm other than
maybe messing up some query output - and the solution would be 'don't
do that then' :-)


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Dave Page
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