Thanks a lot, Chris! Yes, the manual said that "It is typically set by an application upon connection to the server." exactly your approach.
But the examples you gave me is to print the application_name in the query results, aren't they? Do you know how to make it as the prefix of the local log messages? T On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Tianyin Xu <t...@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote: > > However, I have the following configuration settings in postgresql.conf > > > > application_name = 'mypostgres' > > log_line_prefix = '[%a] ' > > > > I'm not familiar with this usage of setting application_name in > postgresql.conf - usually I set it as part of the database connection. > For example: > > //In Pike: > object db=Sql.Sql("pgsql://USER:PASSWORD@HOST > /DATABASE",(["search_path":"SCHEMA,public","application_name":"APPLICATION"])); > > //In PHP: > $db=pg_connect('dbname=DATABASE host=HOST user=USER password=PASSWORD'); > pg_query($db,"set application_name='APPLICATION'"); > pg_query($db,"set search_path to SCHEMA,public"); > > ChrisA > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Tianyin XU, http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/