Re: [PATCH] Include application_name in "connection authorized" log message

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> The issue here is exactly that at the point where we emit the
> 'connection authorized' message, we haven't processed generic GUCs from
> the startup packet yet and therefore application_name isn't set as a
> GUC and, as a result, isn't included in the 'connection authorized'
> message, even if it's specified in log_line_prefix.
>
> There's no way, today, to get the application name included in the
> 'connection authorized' message, which certainly seems unfortunate and a
> bit surprising, hence this patch to fix that.

OK, that makes more sense, but I'm still skeptical of adding a special
case particularly for application_name.

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