From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200004151850.OAA02648@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004151618140.523-100000@localhost.localdomain>
	from Peter Eisentraut at "Apr 15, 2000 08:53:01 pm"
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:50:35 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> 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.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026