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Re: Application name patch - v4

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-30T21:54:54Z
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Le 30 nov. 2009 à 22:38, Robert Haas a écrit :
> I still don't really understand why we wouldn't want RESET ALL to
> reset the application name.  In what circumstances would you want the
> application name to stay the same across a RESET ALL?

I can't see any use case, but SET/RESET is tied to SESSION whereas application_name is a CONNECTION property. So it's a hard sell that reseting the session will change connection properties.

Regards,
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dim