[IMPALA-2064] Add effective_user() builtin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.2
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.3.0
• Target Version: Impala 2.3.0
• Assignee: Henry Robinson
• Reporter: Henry Robinson
• Created: 12/Jun/15 19:24
• Updated: 13/Jul/15 22:21
• Resolved: 16/Jun/15 23:56

Description

Users can get at the logged-in user via user(), but they can't see their effective user. We should add an effective_user() builtin.