Chapter 12Context Variables

Unless explicitly mentioned otherwise in an Available in section, context variables are available in at least DSQL and PSQL. Availability in ESQL is — bar some exceptions — not tracked by this Language Reference.

12.1CURRENT_CONNECTION

Unique identifier of the current connection.

TypeBIGINT

Syntax

CURRENT_CONNECTION

Its value is derived from a counter on the database header page, which is incremented for each new connection. When a database is restored, this counter is reset to zero.

Examples

select current_connection from rdb$database
 
execute procedure P_Login(current_connection)