First of all, I apologize for submitting a patch and missing the commitfest deadline. Given the size of the patch, I thought I'd submit it for your consideration regardless.
This patch prevents non-superusers from viewing other user's pg_stat_activity.application_name. This topic was discussed some time ago [1] and consequently application_name was made world readable [2].
I would like to propose that we hide it instead by reverting to the original behavior. There is a very large number of databases on the same cluster shared across different users who can easily view each other's application_name values. Along with that, there are some libraries that default application_name to the name of the running process [3], which can leak information about what web servers applications are running, queue systems, etc. Furthermore leaking application names in a multi-tenant environment is more information than an attacker should have access to on services like Heroku and other similar providers.
