From: | Keith Worthington <KeithW(at)NarrowPathInc(dot)com> |
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To: | Shawn Garbett <shawn_garbett(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: User Context Variables |
Date: | 2005-07-16 12:40:34 |
Message-ID: | 42D90042.6000808@NarrowPathInc.com |
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Shawn Garbett wrote:
> I need to trap some audit information in PostgreSQL.
> Currently we have it working Oracle and it stores the
> authenticated user in the sys_context so that a
> trigger just does a "select userenv('client_info')
> from dual;" and all the necessary magic is handled.
> The reasons for this are complex, it involves
> connection pooling, detached web sessions, etc. It's a
> very elegant solution when using Oracle.
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to do it in
> PostgreSQL. So what I need is a way to save a single
> value in a connection for a set of triggers to use
> that is only valid during a transaction. A place to
> store a user variable like sys context would work, a
> temporary table would work, or some mysterious
> function that did the equivalent would work. I can't
> figure out if these are possible under PostgreSQL.
>
> Shawn
Shawn,
How about using current_user and session_user?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-info.html
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Kind Regards,
Keith
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