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I know that PostgreSQL database allows to keep track of application name for each connection and it looks like application_name variable should work with RPostgreSQL, but how exactly should I do this? Adding variable application_name = "test" to dbConnect doesn't work.

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application_name does not appear to be a parameter that you can set when connecting to a database: postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/… – hadley Feb 18 '15 at 3:53
    
You mean in RPostgreSQL? – kismsu Feb 18 '15 at 16:46
    
No, in postgres – hadley Feb 19 '15 at 16:21
    
@hadley, 'application_name' appears in the page that you linked, it is definitely a parameter that you can set in PostgreSQL, as you can see here – ncocacola Feb 26 '15 at 16:30
    
@ncocacola ok must've missed that. You can set in dbConnect() in github.com/rstats-db/RPostgres – hadley Feb 26 '15 at 19:30
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I'm not sure you can pass application_name='test' as an argument to dbConnect in RPostgreSQL (there is an optional options argument, but I couldn't figure out what kind of data it expects).

An alternative would be to run the following SQL query immediately after opening the connection:

SET application_name='test'

and it should work until you close the connection.

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