Re: BUG #14242: Role with a setconfig "role" setting to a nonexistent role causes pg_upgrade to fail

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk=
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wrote:

>  Tom> If the named role is the same as the actual role, then it's
>  Tom> useless.  If they're different, it seems at best confusing.  In
>  Tom> the context of ALTER DATABASE SET, it seems both confusing and
>  Tom> possibly a security hazard.
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> It _appears_ to silently fail if the user logging in is not actually a
> member of the specified role. I have not looked at the code.
>

=E2=80=8BWARNING:\s\spermission denied to set role "grouprole"
=E2=80=8B
David J.