Re: Updated TODO item

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: Kaare Rasmussen <kar(at)kakidata(dot)dk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Updated TODO item
Date: 2002-01-04 19:04:00
Message-ID: 200201041904.g04J40P12249@candle.pha.pa.us
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Doug McNaught wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > > Shouldn't that be
> > >
> > > CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = "user"
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> > Yes! OWNER is much better. TODO updated and I will save this message
> > for changes in 7.3:
>
> Will this make OWNER into a new keyword, and break schemas that have
> "owner" as a table or column name? USER is at least already a
> keyword...

We already use OWNER in ALTER TABLE so it is not really a new keyword:

| ALTER TABLE relation_name OWNER TO UserId

Also, its usage is limited to CREATE TABLE so I believe a column named
owner is still possible, as it is now.

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