[SPARK-21957] Add current_user function

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Labels: bulk-closed
• Assignee: Kent Yao 2
• Reporter: Marco Gaido
• Created: 08/Sep/17 14:52
• Updated: 03/Jun/21 12:39
• Resolved: 02/Jun/21 13:05

Description

Spark doesn't support the current_user function.

Despite the user can be retrieved in other ways, the function would help making easier to migrate existing Hive queries to Spark and it can also be convenient for people who are just using SQL to interact with Spark.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #19169 (mgaido91)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #32718 (yaooqinn)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #32718 (yaooqinn)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #32770 (yaooqinn)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #32770 (yaooqinn)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #19169