Re: pg_stat_activity.application_name

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_stat_activity.application_name
Date: 2009-07-16 20:21:32
Message-ID: 4A5F8BCC.8090806@enterprisedb.com
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> We would probably want to modify psql, pg_dump, etc. to put the
> application name into this connection property, at least by default.
> We may want to add a command-line switch to allow user override -- to
> provide something more detailed. For example,
> --application-name='Weekly Purge' could by specified on the psql
> command line.

I've seen it set to argv[0] on other DBMSs, if not set explicitly. That
would be a reasonable default, and would handle psql, pg_dump etc.
without changes.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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