Re: Should SET ROLE inherit config params?

Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> SET ROLE special WITH SETTINGS
>>
>> ... or similar; I'd need to find an existing keyword which works.
>
> Perhaps something like "SET ROLE special NEW SESSION;".
>
> It solves a problem mentioned by Tom as it's very clear that it's a
> new session so when you reset the settings to what they were at
> session start, you take the default settings of special.

So this is just syntactic sugar for 

SET ROLE;
RESET ALL;

Or is it more or less?

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