2009/10/20 Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org>: > 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.
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. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
