Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> It would be a seriously bad idea for this to behave one way on some >> platforms and differently on others.
> Why would that be so bad? On platforms that support getting argv[0], > you'd get "mycoolapp" in the application name by default. On others, > you'd get something like "unknown libpq app". Right, and if your software is written to depend on the appname being set a particular way, you suddenly find you have a portability problem. I don't think we should be in the business of creating hidden vendor lock-ins. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers