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Re: SET ROLE documentation improvement

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-04-11T14:03:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:33:15AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 09:21:39AM +0300, Andrey M. Borodin wrote:
>> Can I ask you please to help me with determining status of CF item
>> [0]. Is it committed or there's something to move to next CF?
> 
> Only half of the patch has been applied as of 3330a8d1b792.  Yurii and
> Nathan, could you follow up with the rest?  Moving the patch to the
> next CF makes sense, and the last thread update is rather recent.

AFAICT there are two things remaining:

* Remove the "they lose their superuser privileges" note.
* Note that SET ROLE and SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION are exceptions.

While I think these are good changes, I don't sense any urgency here, so
I'm treating this as v18 material at this point.

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Nathan Bossart
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Commits

  1. doc: Note exceptions for SET ROLE's effect on privilege checks.

  2. doc: Clarify requirements for SET ROLE.