On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Tianyin Xu <t...@cs.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>> I still wonder why application_name appears in the configuration file if it
>>> cannot take effort :-P
>
>> Not sure what you mean by that, but my postgresql.conf doesn't have
>> anything about application_name. But if it did, it would be a default
>> that an application can override.
>
> The reason background processes don't print anything for %a is that it's
> presumed it couldn't possibly be set to anything meaningful.


Why wouldn't 'bgwriter', 'autovacuum', 'checkpointer', etc. be meaningful?

Cheers,

Jeff


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