| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Harold Giménez <harold(at)heroku(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users |
| Date: | 2014-01-28 15:49:50 |
| Message-ID: | 22724.1390924190@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> The problem with that is that it doesn't just hide it. It removes the
> debugging information altogether. Even the administrator of the
> application itself and the DBA won't have this information. The reason
> the Gem is putting that information in application_name is precisely
> because it's useful. In fact it was a patch from Heroku that added
> that information to application_name in the first place because it's
> useful.
Oh really. So, to clean up after their own ill-considered decision,
they'd like to take useful information away from everybody.
regards, tom lane
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