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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.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 19:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200004152328.TAA03974@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17157.955839129@sss.pgh.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

Updated.  Thanks.

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