Laurenz Albe wrote: > Madan Kumar wrote: > > How to get the user who is invoking the function with SECURITY DEFINER? > > When we define the function to be SECURITY DEFINER, it will execute in the > > context of the user who created it. Let's say I've given execute permission > > for this function to other users and wish to know who is executing it. > > Is there a way to find that out? > > I tried CURRENT_USER and SESSION_USER but they return the function owner > > since they execute in that context. So is there any way to figure out the > > user who is invoking the function? > > It works for me: > > As user "postgres": > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tellme() RETURNS text LANGUAGE plpgsql > SECURITY DEFINER AS 'BEGIN RETURN session_user; END;'; > > As user "laurenz": > > SELECT tellme(); > tellme > --------- > laurenz > (1 row) > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe
session_user has always worked for me. cheers, raf
