On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote:
> 2009/10/19 Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org>:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Massa, Harald Armin <c...@ghum.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.


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