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Re: Can the username calling a function be made available within the function?

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:23:25 +0100,
  Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to be able to have a PL/pgSQL function defined as SECURITY DEFINER,
> but still have access to the calling username within the function. Is this
> possible? 
> 
> I could pass current_user as a parameter, but of course this could easily be
> bypassed.
> 
> Is there a way of coding this?

You probably want session_user.

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