Return the current user name. This function returns the user name and host name as provided by the client when connecting.
SESSION_USER()Shows the value of CURRENT_USER() when the session was created, that is, it shows a user@host pair from the , like CURRENT_USER(), but unlike CURRENT_USER() it will not change inside stored routines and views. This is SQL Standard behavior for the SESSION_USER function.
SESSION_USER() is a synonym for .
Backward-compatible behavior can be restored by setting old mode to .
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