Re: Application name patch - v4

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Dimitri Fontaine
> <dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:
> > Le 30 nov. 2009 ? 22:38, Robert Haas a ?crit :
> >> I still don't really understand why we wouldn't want RESET ALL to
> >> reset the application name. ?In what circumstances would you want the
> >> application name to stay the same across a RESET ALL?
> >
> > I can't see any use case, but SET/RESET is tied to SESSION whereas application_name is a CONNECTION property. So
it'sa hard sell that reseting the session will change connection properties.
 
> 
> Is there any technical difference between a connection property and a
> session property?  If so, what is it?
> 
> ISTM that the only time you're likely going to use RESET ALL is in a
> connection pooling environment, and that if you're in a connection
> pooling environment you probably want to reset the application name
> along with everything else.  I might be wrong, but that's how it seems
> to me at first blush.

Uh, what does it mean to reset the application name?  Are you resetting
it to what it was before the session started, or to a blank string?

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