Bryan White writes:

> I sometimes need to be able to identify what client application is
> causing messages that are appering in the backend log file.

I've been thinking about that too a while ago, but it depends on whether
you want to do this for auditing purposes, in which case

> 1) An identification string passed when a connection is established.  This
> string would either be immediatly logged or included in the log entry for
> any subsequent messages for that connection.

is not reliable. If you want to have this on a cooperative basis, then

> 3) A function that takes a string argument and calls elog.

is probably reasonable.


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