SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION - Amazon Redshift
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SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION

Sets the user name for the current session.

You can use the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command, for example, to test database access by temporarily running a session or transaction as an unprivileged user. You must be a database superuser to run this command.

Syntax

SET [ LOCAL ] SESSION AUTHORIZATION { user_name | DEFAULT }

Parameters

LOCAL

Specifies that the setting is valid for the current transaction. Omitting this parameter specifies that the setting is valid for the current session.

user_name

Name of the user to set. The user name may be written as an identifier or a string literal.

DEFAULT

Sets the session user name to the default value.

Examples

The following example sets the user name for the current session to dwuser:

SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION 'dwuser';

The following example sets the user name for the current transaction to dwuser:

SET LOCAL SESSION AUTHORIZATION 'dwuser';

This example sets the user name for the current session to the default user name:

SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT;