On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 24/08/2010 14:05, Magnus Hagander a écrit : >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Guillaume Lelarge >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Le 24/08/2010 13:51, Dave Page a écrit : >>>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Actually, what happens if we try to use PQconnect() with >>>>> applicaiton_name on an older version? I assume it fails, and not just >>>>> works and ignores it? >>>> >>>> iirc, yes. >>>> >>> >>> We have this in the log: >>> >>> FATAL: unrecognized configuration parameter "application_name" >>> >>> And then it connects. >>> >>> At least with a 9.0 libpq and a 8.3.0 PostgreSQL server. >> >> Yeah, the interesting thing would be an 8.3 libpq, if you just throw >> it the connection string and don't try to use PQparseconnInfo(). >> > > It fails. If the user has a 8.3 libpq, we should not send the > application_name connection parameter.
That means Dave is perfectly correct, and thus someone needs to write that patch ;) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
