View a markdown version of this page

CURRENT_SCHEMA - Amazon Redshift
SyntaxReturn typeExamples
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Redshift will no longer support the use of Python UDFs after June 30, 2026. We will start enforcing it in phases. For more information on the details of Python end of life and migration options, see the blog post that was published on June 30, 2025.

CURRENT_SCHEMA

Returns the name of the schema at the front of the search path. This schema will be used for any tables or other named objects that are created without specifying a target schema.

Syntax

Note

This is a leader-node function. This function returns an error if it references a user-created table, an STL or STV system table, or an SVV or SVL system view.

current_schema()

Return type

CURRENT_SCHEMA returns a CHAR or VARCHAR string.

Examples

The following query returns the current schema: 

select current_schema();

current_schema
----------------
public
(1 row)