Re: ALTER ROLES - questions

I see a lot of ALTER ROLE items not documented:

SYSID
IN ROLE
ROLE/USER
ADMIN

Is anyone working on documenting these? I see these flags as used by
and documented in CREATE ROLE too. Should they be disabled for ALTER
ROLE?

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Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I played around with roles a bit today and noticed some minor things:
>
> ALTER ROLE seems to support ALTER ROLE <name> ROLE <name> - but that
> form is not mentioned in the docs:
>
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole2;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# ALTER ROLE myrole ROLE myrole2;
> ALTER ROLE
>
> ALTER ROLE <name> IN ROLE <name> (undocumented but seems logical to try
> because CREATE ROLE supports that) seems to result in the following a
> bit cryptic error message:
>
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole2;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# ALTER ROLE myrole IN ROLE myrole2;
> ERROR: option "addroleto" not recognized
>
>
> I understand that adding/removing role membership can be done by the
> means of GRANT/REVOKE but at least improving the error message(or
> stopping the parser from accepting that syntax) a bit would be nice :-)
>
> Stefan
>
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