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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.50.3 (3.50.3-1.fc39) MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk 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: >=20 > "SET ROLE has effects comparable to SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, but the > privilege checks involved are quite different." >=20 > What are the differences in privilege checks? >=20 > 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