Thread: Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?

Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?

From

"Gauthier, Dave"

Date:

07 August 2009, 19:20:45

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

Re: Getting linux $USER (and perhaps other env vars) in PL/pg-sql?

From

Sam Mason

Date:

07 August 2009, 19:38:19

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] helps?

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

 [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-info.html