Re: Document target_role param of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 15:08 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> I just had a confusing moment trying to figure out why my roles
> weren't creating tables the way I was expecting them to. I didn't
> understand what the `target_role` parameter did. No matter how I try
> to read this page, I can't see an explanation for that parameter:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html
>
> I propose an explanation like the following be added to the
> `target_role` parameter:
>
> This is the role that will create objects with altered default
> privileges. Note that changes in default privileges aren't
> inherited, so altering the default privileges of created objects
> for a parent role will not change the default privileges of
> objects created by inherited roles.

+1. I cannot count the number of times I have seen people confused by that.

Suggested patch attached.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe