Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> The problem with that is that it doesn't just hide it. It removes the
> debugging information altogether. Even the administrator of the
> application itself and the DBA won't have this information. The reason
> the Gem is putting that information in application_name is precisely
> because it's useful. In fact it was a patch from Heroku that added
> that information to application_name in the first place because it's
> useful.

Oh really.  So, to clean up after their own ill-considered decision,
they'd like to take useful information away from everybody.
        regards, tom lane