Re: Documentation: 21.5. Default Roles

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, rirans(at)comcast(dot)net, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Documentation: 21.5. Default Roles
Date: 2020-01-15 03:56:14
Message-ID: 20200115035614.GA13202@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 02:45:02PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I think that "predefined role" is better than "default role".
> >
> > Thanks, patch applied through 9.6.
>
> Erm, I didn't agree with this and pointed to reasons why it was based,
> for starters, on a misunderstanding and further wasn't a particularly
> good idea anyway. I'm not happy that it was committed, and to have been
> back-patched strikes me as even worse. What about existing links to
> things like: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/default-roles.html
> which will now be broken, like from here?:

I talked to Stephen on the phone and he is going to fix the doc areas I
missed, and add some C comments. :-) Thanks.

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