Re: Application name patch - v2

2009/10/19 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> There are some log parser's and analysers. So people use reduced log
>> often. The reductions rules should be based on application name. Why
>> not? And when somebody modifies to appliacation name, then these logs
>> finish in '/dev/null.
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> So if your insecure app worries you, just don't use %a in the log
> prefix, or ignore the column in the CSV logs.

I'll know so %a is insecure, but what other users? Every live
application is potencially insecure. I agree, so this value is useful
for debuging, but with proposed features the value is diskutable.

Pavel
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