Re: new createuser option for replication role

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new createuser option for replication role
Date: 2011-09-10 14:50:13
Message-ID: 1061.1315666213@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Currently createuser cannot create a role with REPLICATION privilege
> because it doesn't have any option to do that. Which sometimes annoys
> me when setting up replication. I'd like to propose to add new options
> "-x (--replication)" and "-X (--no-replication)" into createuser. "-x" allows
> the new user to do replication, and "-X" disallows. The default is "-X".
> Is it worth creating the patch?

> Though I'd like to use "-r" and "-R" as the option name, they have already
> been used for CREATEROLE privilege. So I'm thinking to use "-x" and
> "-X" derived from XLOG. But does anyone have better option name?

Better solution: don't have a short form of the switch.

regards, tom lane

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