From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:52:09 -0400
Message-ID: <17157.955839129@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200004151850.OAA02648@candle.pha.pa.us>
References: <200004151850.OAA02648@candle.pha.pa.us>
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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
regards, tom lane
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