Re: Client application name

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> - Is my approach reasonable?
>> - What interface should I include in libpq?
>
> I thought the plan was to have libpq look at an environment variable,
> compare PGCLIENTENCODING for example.  I'm not convinced psql should be
> involved in the logic at all --- if it is, there definitely must be a
> way for scripts to override the "psql" value.  In general the place that
> is most reasonable to set the value might be several software levels up
> from libpq, which is what makes the environment-variable approach
> attractive.

What happens if we want to change the application name after the fact?
Consider the case where there is a connection pooler between the
database and application, for example.

...Robert