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From: "Lefty Leverenz (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HIVE-9143) select user(), current_user()
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Lefty Leverenz commented on HIVE-9143:
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Um ... I vaguely recall something about users being defined externally so there aren't any create/drop commands for them.  Is that correct?

> select user(), current_user()
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-9143
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9143
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.13.0
>            Reporter: Hari Sekhon
>            Assignee: Alexander Pivovarov
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.2.0
>
>         Attachments: HIVE-9143.1.patch, HIVE-9143.2.patch, HIVE-9143.3.patch
>
>
> Feature request to add support for determining in HQL session which user I am currently connected as - an old MySQL ability:
> {code}mysql> select user(), current_user();
> +----------------+----------------+
> | user()         | current_user() |
> +----------------+----------------+
> | root@localhost | root@localhost |
> +----------------+----------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> {code}
> which doesn't seem to have a counterpart in Hive at this time:
> {code}0: jdbc:hive2://<host>:100> select user();
> Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException Line 0:-1 Invalid function 'user' (state=42000,code=40000)
> 0: jdbc:hive2://<host>:100> select current_user();
> Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10011]: Line 1:7 Invalid function 'current_user' (state=42000,code=10011){code}
> Regards,
> Hari Sekhon
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon



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