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# Who Is The Current User

You can determine the current user of a psql session by selecting on the `current_user`

```sql
> select current_user;

  current_user
----------------
   test_user
```

You can also select on the `user` which is an alias of `current_user`

```sql
> select user;

     user
----------------
   test_user
```