-----Original Message----- From: Andres Freund [mailto:and...@anarazel.de] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 10:48 AM To: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> Cc: Satyanarayana Narlapuram <satyanarayana.narlapu...@microsoft.com>; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Making server name part of the startup message
On 2017-06-15 09:43:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Satyanarayana Narlapuram <satyanarayana.narlapu...@microsoft.com> writes: > > As a cloud service, Azure Database for PostgreSQL uses a gateway proxy to > > route connections to a node hosting the actual server. To do that, the > > proxy needs to know the name of the server it tries to locate. As a > > work-around we currently overload the username parameter to pass in the > > server name using username@servername convention. It is purely a convention > > that our customers need to follow and understand. We would like to extend > > the PgSQL connection protocol to add an optional parameter for the server > > name to help with this scenario. > > We don't actually have any concept of a server name at the moment, and > it isn't very clear what introducing that concept would buy. > Please explain. cluster_name could be what's meant? Andres, thank you! It is database cluster name as you mentioned. - Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
