Re: Roles - SET ROLE Updated

Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> BTW, I realized we do not support granting roles to PUBLIC:
>>
>> regression=# create role r;
>> CREATE ROLE
>> regression=# grant r to public;
>> ERROR: role "public" does not exist
>>
>> but as far as I can tell SQL99 expects this to work.

> Indeed, I believe you're correct, sorry about missing that.

However, on second thought I'm not sure that this is sensible anyway.

Consider that every role is implicitly a member of PUBLIC --- so isn't
the above a creation of a circular membership loop, which is (for good
reason) forbidden by the spec?

regards, tom lane