Re: Application name patch - v2

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@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