Re: current_user changes immediately after login

Tom Lane wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <cs(at)deriva(dot)de> writes:
>
>> I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the
>> current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side.
>>
>
> That's bizarre. Do you have anything in ~/.psqlrc? I'm also wondering
> (though too lazy to experiment) whether this effect could be produced
> via "ALTER DATABASE foo SET role = bar" ... checking
> pg_database.datconfig would be enough to eliminate that idea ...
>

I had found the problem just before I read your mail and you are
perfectly right with your guess: These are the corresponding entries
from the pg_database system catalog (without the datacl column):

datname | datconfig
---------+----------------
testdb | {role=itstaff}

So it seems that one of the users (one with the appropriate permissions
for this database) has issued this "alter database" command (probably
without really understanding what he did *g*).
After "alter database testdb reset role" everything is ok now.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Christian

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