Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> No, at least both pgbouncer and pgpool consider only (username, database)
> pair as pool identifier. Rest of the startup params are tuned on the fly.
> And I think that should stay that way.
If you're happy with handling the existing connection parameters in a given
way, why would you not want application_name behaving that same way?
regards, tom lane