Re: "is_superuser" parameter creates inconsistencies

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Allow SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to update the psql %n user display

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> >> Is this a TODO item or something we want to address for 7.4?
> 
> > I'd like to address it for 7.4, but it looks a bit more difficult than it
> > seemed at first, because session_user isn't in GUC at all, so there is no
> > infrastructure to pass it to the client.
> 
> We'd have to add it, presumably as a read-only variable.  I didn't think
> that was particularly difficult though ...
> 
>             regards, tom lane
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