On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote:
> I was looking at something in gram.y when I noticed that the following > production works: > > > SET SESSION SESSION CHARACTERISTICS AS TRANSACTION READ ONLY; > > > "SESSION SESSION" seems fairly odd -- is it intentional? > Scanning the SET and SET TRANSACTION it doesn't appear to be something they are documented as allowing. However, SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION is defined as thus: SET [ SESSION | LOCAL ] SESSION AUTHORIZATION user_name which implies that we don't take pains to avoid it. Since: "The SESSION and LOCAL modifiers are a PostgreSQL extension, as is the RESET syntax." The standard doesn't have any undue influence on our particular decision. David J.
