| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Application name patch - v2 |
| Date: | 2009-10-19 14:41:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20091019144128.GH17756@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> > Well, if other people think that's necessary, it's certainly possible.
>
> I think Pavel's entire line of argument is utter nonsense. He's setting
> up a straw man that has nothing to do with any actually likely use of
> the variable.
>
> I do agree with Peter's concerns about limiting the character set of the
> name string, and maybe there should be some sort of length limit too.
I was thinking we might just declare it of type 'name'..
Stephen
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