Hari Sekhon created HIVE-9143: --------------------------------- Summary: select user(), current_user() Key: HIVE-9143 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9143 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 0.13.0 Reporter: Hari Sekhon Priority: Minor
Feature request to add support for determining in SQL session which user I am currently connected as - an old MySQL ability: {code}mysql> select user(), current_user(); +----------------+----------------+ | user() | current_user() | +----------------+----------------+ | root@localhost | root@localhost | +----------------+----------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) {code} which doesn't seem to have a counterpart in Hive at this time: {code}0: jdbc:hive2://<host>:100> select user(); Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException Line 0:-1 Invalid function 'user' (state=42000,code=40000) 0: jdbc:hive2://<host>:100> select current_user(); Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10011]: Line 1:7 Invalid function 'current_user' (state=42000,code=10011){code} Regards, Hari Sekhon http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)