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Type: string
Default: postgres
Context: sighup
Restart: false
Sets the program name used to identify PostgreSQL messages in syslog

When logging to syslog is enabled, this parameter determines the program name used to identify PostgreSQL messages in syslog logs. The default is postgres. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line.

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