"Clark C. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to ressurect this thread. However, I've been playing with the new > role system and I'd prefer to keep CURRENT_USER as the login user, and > not making it a synonymn for CURRENT_ROLE. In my application, I love the > ability to "shed" privleges by "SET ROLE dataentry;". However, I need > CURRENT_USER to remain as 'clark' for audit trail triggers (recording > that 'dataentry' changed a particular order is kinda useless).
Aren't you looking for SESSION_USER? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster