Re: How to get user's role? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: How to get user's role?
Date
Msg-id 20040930142124.GA72856@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to How to get user's role?  ("Armen Rizal" <armenrz@starprise.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:26:41AM +0700, Armen Rizal wrote:
>
> I want to get what roles/groups that the current user is member of.
> I tried to use the following commands but they both returned no rows.
>
> SELECT * FROM information_schema.enabled_roles
> SELECT * FROM information_schema.applicable_roles

What version of PostgreSQL are you using?  Are you sure the current
user belongs to any groups?  What's the output of the following
queries?

SELECT current_user;
SELECT usename, usesysid FROM pg_user WHERE usename = current_user;
SELECT * FROM pg_group;

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Michael Fuhr
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