Re: Application name patch - v2

2009/10/20 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> 2009/10/19 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Massa, Harald Armin <chef(at)ghum(dot)de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Would'nt this also make sense for PostgreSQL? That is, when no environment
>>>> is set, and no SET-command is issued, that the application name becomes the
>>>> default?
>>>
>>> That needs to be set by the application. As discussed previously,
>>> there's no way for libpq to get at argv[0].
>>
>> Um, that has to be platform dependent, no? On windows for example, you
>> can use GetCommandLine().
>
> Yeah, and there's a similar API on *BSD I believe, but nothing standard.

Right, but it might be worth investigating using the API that's
available on the platform, if one is. It's a fairly simple operation
after all, so it won't take huge amounts of platform-specific code.

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