| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER |
| Date: | 2000-04-15 18:50:35 |
| Message-ID: | 200004151850.OAA02648@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Looking at the spec, we do seem to be missing SYSTEM_USER out of the
> > four variants the spec mentions. However, considering that we map
> > them all to the same thing anyway, I can't get too excited about it.
>
> SYSTEM_USER is the operating system user that connected to the database
> system. This is obviously not generally applicable in the environment
> PostgreSQL runs in, nor is there a universal and reliable way to get this
> information, so I suggest we don't bother about it. Mapping it to
> [CURRENT_]USER would certainly be wrong.
>
Well, we do already map it. I just documented it.
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