// Package pq is a pure Go Postgres driver for the database/sql package. package pq import ( "path/filepath" "syscall" ) // Perform Windows user name lookup identically to libpq. // // The PostgreSQL code makes use of the legacy Win32 function // GetUserName, and that function has not been imported into stock Go. // GetUserNameEx is available though, the difference being that a // wider range of names are available. To get the output to be the // same as GetUserName, only the base (or last) component of the // result is returned. func userCurrent() (string, error) { pw_name := make([]uint16, 128) pwname_size := uint32(len(pw_name)) - 1 err := syscall.GetUserNameEx(syscall.NameSamCompatible, &pw_name[0], &pwname_size) if err != nil { return "", ErrCouldNotDetectUsername } s := syscall.UTF16ToString(pw_name) u := filepath.Base(s) return u, nil }