Re: Re: [HACKERS] SESSION_USER

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.


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