Re: Application name patch - v2

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> For java, it doesn't even go through libpq, so it wouldn't be set
>> for it. And I'd expect the JDBC driver to set it based on Something
>> Reasonable (TM) that it can get the information about. After all,
>> this thing was listed in the JDBC spec somebody said...
> I can't see a good way to get a meaningful default from within the
> bowels of the JDBC driver, unless it's taking a system property or
> environment variable.

[ scratches head... ]  I thought the JDBC spec already said exactly how
one would set this.  Why would we go to significant effort to make it
behave contrary to spec?
        regards, tom lane