From 923a44997b38399d9e8a3ffaaa9e5b606c948b22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:18:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Minor improvement to SET ROLE documentation.

This helps indicating that even though `SET ROLE` made by a superuser
will make that superuser to lose their privileges, there's still one
they retain, and that is the ability to `SET ROLE` again.
---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml
index 13bad1bf66..808a99e8fc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/set_role.sgml
@@ -42,9 +42,12 @@ RESET ROLE
 
   <para>
    The specified <replaceable class="parameter">role_name</replaceable>
-   must be a role that the current session user is a member of.
-   (If the session user is a superuser, any role can be selected.)
-  </para>
+   must be a role that the current session user is a member of. The current
+   session user must have the SET option for the specified
+   <replaceable class="parameter">role_name</replaceable>, either directly
+   or indirectly via a chain of memberships with the SET option. (If the
+   session user is a superuser, any role can be selected.)
+   </para>
 
   <para>
    The <literal>SESSION</literal> and <literal>LOCAL</literal> modifiers act the same
@@ -88,7 +91,9 @@ RESET ROLE
 
   <para>
    Note that when a superuser chooses to <command>SET ROLE</command> to a
-   non-superuser role, they lose their superuser privileges.
+   non-superuser role, they lose their superuser privileges, except for
+   the privilege to change to another role again using <command>SET ROLE</command>
+   or <command>RESET ROLE</command>.
   </para>
 
   <para>
-- 
2.33.0