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From Dmitry Igrishin
Subject SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION superuser limitation.
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Msg-id CAAfz9KO_HBqXZbH90Q5=v+nEsmSBYDDPH0YLnKDHB2pR3LN3iA@mail.gmail.com
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Hackers,

There are feature which may be useful in conjunction with connection pools.
It is the ability to change the session user without creating the new
connection, like this:
(pseudo REPL):
notsuperuser > SELECT current_user, session_user;
notsuperuser notsuperuser
notsuperuser > SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION notsuperuser2 PASSWORD 'password_of_notsuperuser2';
SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
notsuperuser2 > SELECT current_user, session_user;
notsuperuser2 notsuperuser2
notsuperuser2 > SET ROLE user3;
notsuperuser2 > SELECT current_user, session_user;
user3 notsuperuser2
According to [1], SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION can only be
used by superusers. Is it possible to extend it for use by not only
superusers?


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// Dmitry.

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