Mike Blackwell <mike.blackwell@rrd.com> writes:
> There are times when it would be useful to have the application_name
> connection parameter displayed in the process name - and thus in ps and
> pg_top - in addition to the user and database name.
> Would there be any downside to this?
In a lot of situations ("top" for instance) only a limited number of
characters can be displayed from a process title. I'm hesitant to add
fields to that string that we don't really need.
regards, tom lane