On 7/13/16 12:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Blackwell <mike.blackwell@rrd.com> writes:
>> There are times when it would be useful to have the application_name
>> connection parameter displayed in the process name - and thus in ps and
>> pg_top - in addition to the user and database name.
>
>> Would there be any downside to this?
>
> In a lot of situations ("top" for instance) only a limited number of
> characters can be displayed from a process title. I'm hesitant to add
> fields to that string that we don't really need.
Could we make this configurable, similar to log_line_prefix?
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