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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: postgres (superuser) cannot connect to database
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Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> writes:
> How come a user who has issued "set role to postgres", so that the 
> current user is postgres, cannot connect to a database?

\c makes a fresh connection to the server.  SET ROLE in your old
session will not carry over to that (nor any other session state).

			regards, tom lane