| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Application name patch - v3 |
| Date: | 2009-11-26 00:35:45 |
| Message-ID: | 18291.1259195745@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 23:01:35 Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think that's really essential, not optional. The proposed patch will
>> transfer the application name from one backend to another without any
>> encoding conversion. If it contains non-ASCII characters that will
>> result in injection of badly-encoded data inside the backend, which is
>> something we have been trying hard to avoid in recent versions.
> Isn't that similarly the case with pg_stat_activity?
Well, we do still have some un-plugged holes there, but that's not an
excuse for adding more.
regards, tom lane
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