Re: Application name patch - v2

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > Well, if other people think that's necessary, it's certainly possible.
>
> I think Pavel's entire line of argument is utter nonsense.  He's setting
> up a straw man that has nothing to do with any actually likely use of
> the variable.
>
> I do agree with Peter's concerns about limiting the character set of the
> name string, and maybe there should be some sort of length limit too.

I was thinking we might just declare it of type 'name'..
Stephen