Re: new createuser option for replication role

2011/9/23 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Agreed. Attached is the updated version of the patch. It adds two options
>> --replication and --no-replication. If neither specified, neither REPLICATION
>> nor NOREPLICATION is specified in CREATE ROLE, i.e., in this case,
>> replication privilege is granted to only superuser.
>
> Committed.  Do we need to make any changes in interactive mode, when
> we prompt?  In theory this could be either wanted or not wanted for
> either superusers or non-superusers, but I'm not really sure it's
> worth it, and I certainly don't want the command to go into
> interactive mode just because neither --replication nor
> --no-replication was specified.
>
> Thoughts?

I believe the intereactive mode is useless.

There is still an issue with the patch for the documentation: a
superuser, even with NOREPLICATION is allowed to perform
pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup().

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