From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Michael Brusser <michael@synchronicity.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to determine the current user
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:14:04 -0700
Message-ID: <20031014191404.GC21028@perrin.nxad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEEIJKLFNJGBEMBLBAHCAEKCDMAA.michael@synchronicity.com>
References: <DEEIJKLFNJGBEMBLBAHCAEKCDMAA.michael@synchronicity.com>
> I'm running Pg v7.3.4
> I have a function where I need to determine the current user.
> But since the function was created with option "SECURITY DEFINER"
> (it has to be this way) current_user returns the name of creator,
> rather than current user.
>
> Is there a way in such function find out the real current user?
CURRENT_USER should be right. SESSION_USER is the username that
connected to the DB. Look at table 6-27, session information
functions:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/functions-misc.html
-sc
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Sean Chittenden
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