From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: bossartn\@amazon.com <bossartn@amazon.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs\@postgresql.org <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: BUG #14242: Role with a setconfig "role" setting to a nonexistent role causes pg_upgrade to fail
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:18:06 +0100
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>>>>> "David" == David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>> > 2. As foo, execute "alter role foo set role = 'foo'"
David> I'm at a loss to understand what this does when it isn't broken.
ALTER ROLE foo SET role = bar; will have the effect that when 'foo'
logs in, it will behave as if foo had immediately executed the command
SET ROLE bar;
I don't think this is documented but it has obvious uses.
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