Re: pg_stat_activity.application_name

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.

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