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From	Gauthier, Dave
Subject	Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?
Date	August 7, 2009 19:20:45
Msg-id	482E80323A35A54498B8B70FF2B8798004156B82D3@azsmsx504.amr.corp.intel.com Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?
List	pgsql-general

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

From: "Bill Bartlett"
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From: Sam Mason
Date: 07 August 2009, 19:38:19
Subject: Re: Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?