Kevin Grittner wrote: > We would probably want to modify psql, pg_dump, etc. to put the > application name into this connection property, at least by default. > We may want to add a command-line switch to allow user override -- to > provide something more detailed. For example, > --application-name='Weekly Purge' could by specified on the psql > command line.
I've seen it set to argv[0] on other DBMSs, if not set explicitly. That would be a reasonable default, and would handle psql, pg_dump etc. without changes. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers