Set fallback_application_name for a walreceiver to cluster_name

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 6ae578a91e653ce3f4cba8cab96ce41e0cc7103f
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2019-02-27T09:59:25Z
Releases: 12.0
Set fallback_application_name for a walreceiver to cluster_name

By default, the fallback_application_name for a physical walreceiver
is "walreceiver".  This means that multiple standbys cannot be
distinguished easily on a primary, for example in pg_stat_activity or
synchronous_standby_names.

If cluster_name is set, use that for fallback_application_name in the
walreceiver.  (If it's not set, it remains "walreceiver".)  If someone
set cluster_name to identify their instance, we might as well use that
by default to identify the node remotely as well.  It's still possible
to specify another application_name in primary_conninfo explicitly.

Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1257eaee-4874-e791-e83a-46720c72cac7@2ndquadrant.com

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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml modified +11 −3
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c modified +1 −1

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