From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com> |
Cc: | PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: application_name in process name? |
Date: | 2016-07-16 23:15:12 |
Message-ID: | e5e288ae-5584-f35a-3e49-97d630192d5f@BlueTreble.com |
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On 7/13/16 12:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com> writes:
>> There are times when it would be useful to have the application_name
>> connection parameter displayed in the process name - and thus in ps and
>> pg_top - in addition to the user and database name.
>
>> Would there be any downside to this?
>
> In a lot of situations ("top" for instance) only a limited number of
> characters can be displayed from a process title. I'm hesitant to add
> fields to that string that we don't really need.
Could we make this configurable, similar to log_line_prefix?
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