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
