Trigger function always logs postgres as user name

[Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I setup trigger functions for logging, and while they do work and get triggered, the current_user always insert “postgres” even when updates/deletes/inserts are caused by users of another name.

How do I get it to use the name that caused the update? It seems current_user is the trigger’s user, so the server itself in some way. This is on PG10

Here the function:
        BEGIN

                IF      TG_OP = 'INSERT'

                THEN

                        INSERT INTO logging (tabname, schemaname, who, operation, new_val)

                                VALUES (TG_RELNAME, TG_TABLE_SCHEMA, current_user, TG_OP, row_to_json(NEW));

                        RETURN NEW;

                ELSIF   TG_OP = 'UPDATE'

                THEN

                        INSERT INTO logging (tabname, schemaname, who, operation, new_val, old_val)

                                VALUES (TG_RELNAME, TG_TABLE_SCHEMA, current_user, TG_OP,

                                        row_to_json(NEW), row_to_json(OLD));

                        RETURN NEW;

                ELSIF   TG_OP = 'DELETE'

                THEN

                        INSERT INTO logging (tabname, schemaname, operation, who, old_val)

                                VALUES (TG_RELNAME, TG_TABLE_SCHEMA, TG_OP, current_user, row_to_json(OLD));

                        RETURN OLD;

                END IF;

        END;



Cheers,
Alex