Github user julianhyde commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/685 To be consistent with other the other context functions in standard SQL ({{CURRENT_USER}}, {{SESSION_USER}}, {{CURRENT_PATH}}, {{CURRENT_ROLE}}, {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}) this should be invoked without parameters: {{session_id}} rather than {{session_id()}}.
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