Re: [HACKERS] Making server name part of the startup message

On 6/15/17 03:20, Satyanarayana Narlapuram wrote:
> As a cloud service, Azure Database for PostgreSQL uses a gateway proxy
> to route connections to a node hosting the actual server. To do that,
> the proxy needs to know the name of the server it tries to locate. As a
> work-around we currently overload the username parameter to pass in the
> server name using username@servername convention. It is purely a
> convention that our customers need to follow and understand. We would
> like to extend the PgSQL connection protocol to add an optional
> parameter for the server name to help with this scenario.

I think this could be useful if it's something like what HTTP uses.

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