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From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: getting the OS user name
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:52:25 +0200
Message-ID: <20120423145225.GA28321@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4654350.cBryTEqMC6@linux-12>
References: <4654350.cBryTEqMC6@linux-12>

John Fabiani <johnf@jfcomputer.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> In my app it is possible to login as one name and use a different name to 
> login to postgres.
> 
> Is it possible to get the actual OS login name using plsql.  

Since you can login to an remote database server: no.


Andreas
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