Re: [HACKERS] Why does logical replication launcher set application_name?

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Here is a proposed solution that splits bgw_name into bgw_type and
> bgw_name_extra.  bgw_type shows up in pg_stat_activity.backend_type.
> Uses of application_name are removed, because they are no longer
> necessary to identity the process type.

Hmm, is there any reasons why bgw_name_extra string doesn't appear in
pg_stat_activity? I'd say current patch makes the user difficult to
distinguish between apply worker and table sync worker.

Regards,

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