On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> FWIW, I would prefer PGAPPNAME to PGAPPLICATIONNAME which is what > >> We don't usually use abbreviations, so how about PGCLIENTNAME or some such? > > Not sure I believe that argument. Among the set of existing libpq > environment variables I see > > PGHOSTADDR > PGSSLCERT > PGSSLCRL > PGKRBSRVNAME > PGTZ > PGSYSCONFDIR > > so it can hardly be said that there's a policy of avoiding > abbreviations. PGCLIENTNAME would be better than PGAPPLICATIONNAME > I guess, but I still prefer the other.
I also like PGAPPNAME better, for the same reasons as Tom. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
