Re: 'SET LOCAL ROLE blah;' doesn't work?

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>   At http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-set-role.html, we
>   claim that 'SESSION and LOCAL modifiers act the same as for the
>   regular SET command', but I don't think that's actually right...

I cannot duplicate the behavior you show, in either HEAD or 8.2.
Are you *sure* you were inside a transaction block?

            regards, tom lane