On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:07:13 Dave Page wrote:
>> Updated patch attached. Per discussion, this:
>>
>> - Changes the envvar name to PGAPPNAME
>> - Removes support for setting application_name in the startup packet,
>> and instead sends an explicit SET command as part of the connection
>> setup in PQconnectPoll. In order to avoid adding to the
>> application-visible connection states, this is overloaded on the
>> CONNECTION_SETENV state which is only used in the v2 protocol at
>> present and seems like an ideal fit for such a similar use.
>>
>> Other features are as per the last version.
> One more question: Per my reading of the discussion (which very well might be
> flawed), wasnt the plan to limit the availale characters in the application
> name to ascii?
That was suggested, but I thought the eventual outcome was to not bother.
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Dave Page
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