Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?
Hi:
Running 8.3.4 on Linux.
From inside a stored procedure, is there a way to capture the linux user (environment var = $USER) that is attached to the DB?
A simplistic (though meaningless) example would be echo $USER from something like "select get_linux_user()".
Thanks
-dave
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:08:45PM -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Running 8.3.4 on Linux.
From inside a stored procedure, is there a way to capture the linux
user (environment var = $USER) that is attached to the DB?
Not really, what if they were connecting over the network from a device
that doesn't have "users"?
Maybe the "current_user" variable[1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-info.html helps?
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Sam http://samason.me.uk/
[1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-info.html