CURRENT_USER_ID - Amazon Redshift
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CURRENT_USER_ID

Returns the unique identifier for the Amazon Redshift user logged in to the current session.

Syntax

CURRENT_USER_ID

Return type

The CURRENT_USER_ID function returns an integer.

Examples

The following example returns the user name and current user ID for this session:

select user, current_user_id; current_user | current_user_id --------------+----------------- dwuser | 1 (1 row)