From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:50:35 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200004151850.OAA02648@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004151618140.523-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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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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