The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 2561
Logged by: Brian Hurt
Email address: bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 8.01
Operating system: Documentation
Description: Manual is wrong: You can't grant a group to public
Details:
The manual page for grant here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-grant.html
indicates that you can grant a group to public. The discussion of
priveleges here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/privileges.html
indicates that you can't, and experiment with 8.01 confirms that you can't
as well. I'm assuming this is a cut and paste error with the documentation.