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From Fabien COELHO
Subject [HACKERS] "CURRENT_ROLE" is not documented
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.20.1705061027580.3896@lancre
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] "CURRENT_ROLE" is not documented  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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While trying to understand whether there was any difference, I noticed 
that CURRENT_ROLE is an undocumented synonymous for CURRENT_USER:

  psql> SELECT CURRENT_ROLE;
    current_user -- not a typo, it really says "current_user"
    calvin

  sh> grep -i CURRENT_ROLE doc/src/sgml/*/*.sgml doc/src/sgml/*.sgml
   doc/src/sgml/keywords.sgml: <entry><token>CURRENT_ROLE</token></entry>

Is there a special reason why it does not appear in the documentation? If 
not, I would suggest to apply the attached minimal documentation patch.

Also, there is a SESSION_USER, but no SESSION_ROLE. Not sure of the 
rationale.

-- 
Fabien.
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