Current_User
Returns the current database username.
Synopsis
CURRENT_USER
Parameters
This function does not accept parameters.
Results
This function returns the name of the current database user.
Description
Use the CURRENT_USER function to retrieve the name of the current user
in a string of type name (a 31 character length
non-standard type used for storing system identifiers).
Examples
The following example displays the current user logged into testdb:
testdb=# SELECT CURRENT_USER AS myself;
myself
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