On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 17:25 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/sql-set-role.html > Description: > > "SET ROLE has effects comparable to SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, but the > privilege checks involved are quite different." > > What are the differences in privilege checks? > > How are the two commands the same and different, semantically?
The difference is revealed by "SELECT session_user". I think that is pretty clearly described in the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION documentation page. Yours, Laurenz Albe