Re: Application name patch - v4

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Upthread, Tom suggested a new 'SET DEFAULT ...' variant of SET which
>> could be used to set the default GUC value that RESET would revert to.
>> This seems to me to be the ideal solution, and I'd somewhat hesitantly
>> volunteer to work on it (hesitantly as it means touching the parser
>> and other areas of the code I currently have no experience of).
>
> If an application can do SET DEFAULT, how does the connection pooler
> *really* reset the value back to what it was?

There has to be some level of trust here :-). As the alternative would
involve bumping the fe-be protocol version, it seems like a reasonable
approach to me.


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Dave Page
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