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