Re: Client application name

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Client application name
Date: 2009-10-13 15:27:25
Message-ID: 20091013152725.GG4535@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> > - 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' :-)

I worry about log_line_prefix expansion with an unexpected newline. I'm
not sure "don't do that" is a good enough answer because you might be
dealing with uncooperative application writers :-(

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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