Re: [PATCH] Include application_name in "connection authorized" log message

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Include application_name in "connection authorized" log message
Date: 2018-06-22 19:53:16
Message-ID: 20180622195316.27hqxaykxgmcgjr6@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2018-06-22 15:50:06 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Jun-22, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > On 2018-06-22 15:26:06 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On 2018-Jun-22, Andres Freund wrote:
> > > > I think a fair argument could be made that you'd want to have
> > > > application_name logged exactly once, not in every line. Just to cope
> > > > with log volume. With decent log analysis tools once is enough.
> > >
> > > Seems harder than it sounds ... because if the user turns off
> > > log_connections then it's not longer in the log.
> >
> > That's superuser only, so I really don't quite buy that argument.
>
> I meant if the DBA disables it in postgresql.conf then the info is
> nowhere.

I'm not following - application_name isn't logged anywhere by default
currently either.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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