Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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 23:28:47
Message-ID: 200004152328.TAA03974@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> 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.
>
> No we don't!
>
> regression=# select system_user;
> ERROR: Attribute 'system_user' not found

Updated. Thanks.

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