I still wonder why application_name appears in the configuration file if it cannot take effort :-P
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Tianyin Xu <tixu@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote: > Thanks a lot, Chris! > > Yes, the manual said that "It is typically set by an application upon > connection to the server." exactly your approach. > > But the examples you gave me is to print the application_name in the query > results, aren't they? Do you know how to make it as the prefix of the local > log messages?
The examples I gave configure the application_name for a given connection. Everything that connection does will then get logged with that name, if you use %a. You can also see that name in pg_stat_activity.
