From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: CREATE USER |
Date: | 2011-12-13 23:36:27 |
Message-ID: | 201112132336.pBDNaRB21797@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I just notice that when you create a user using CREATE USER and give
> > the user the ability to create other users it gets created as
> > SUPERUSER.
>
> Are you talking about the CREATEUSER option? That is documented, quite
> clearly I think:
>
> CREATEUSER
> NOCREATEUSER
>
> These clauses are an obsolete, but still accepted, spelling of
> SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER. Note that they are not equivalent to
> CREATEROLE as one might naively expect!
>
> The only way we could really make this any better is to remove these
> keywords, which might be something to consider. The preferred SUPERUSER
> spelling has been accepted since 8.1 ... is that long enough to ensure
> everyone's converted their client-side tools? Probably not :-(
How does this relate to people restoring pre-8.1 pg_dumpall dumps?
Seems removing this option would cause the restore to fail.
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