Ignore attempts to set "application_name" in the connection startup packet.

This avoids a useless connection retry and complaint in the postmaster log
when receiving a connection from 8.5 or later libpq.

Backpatch in all supported branches, but of course *not* HEAD.

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index ab9fb8725aad214d5cf7d6c4f2c46bddcb3f4f4d..30635006060b95cb6fe956cc26cff448be483caa 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.583.2.6 2009/08/24 20:08:40 tgl Exp $
+ *       $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.583.2.7 2009/12/02 17:41:07 tgl Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *
@@ -1660,6 +1660,8 @@ retry1:
                                port->user_name = pstrdup(valptr);
                        else if (strcmp(nameptr, "options") == 0)
                                port->cmdline_options = pstrdup(valptr);
+                       else if (strcmp(nameptr, "application_name") == 0)
+                               /* ignore for compatibility with libpq >= 8.5 */ ;
                        else
                        {
                                /* Assume it's a generic GUC option */