Re: WIP patch for Todo Item : Provide fallback_application_name in contrib/pgbench, oid2name, and dblink

Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>

From: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, Shigeru HANADA <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-09T23:33:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Shigeru/Robert,
> >
> >> The way fixing oid2name and pgbench seems reasonable, so applying it to
> >> vacuumlo (as Peter mentioned) would be enough for this issue.
> >
> > Shall I consider following 2 points to update the patch:
> > 1. Apply changes similar to pgbench and oid2name for vacuumlo
> > 2. Remove the modifications for dblink.
>
> I've done these two things and committed this.  Along the way, I also
> fixed it to use a stack-allocated array instead of using malloc, since
> there's no need to malloc a fixed-size array with 7 elements.
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>

Since this commit (17676c785a95b2598c573), pgbench no longer uses .pgpass
to obtain passwords, but instead prompts for a password

This problem is in 9.3 and 9.4dev

According to strace, it is reading the .pgpass file, it just seem like it
is not using it.

Cheers,

Jeff