Re: CREATE USER system privilege?

Hello Tom

>You need to use EXECUTE to construct this query as a string.
>Utility statements in general don't handle parameters.
>
>
Ok. I tried out:

PREPARE create_user(varchar) AS SELECT $1;
ok
EXECUTE create_user('otto');
ok
DEALLOCATE create_user;
ok
PREPARE create_user(varchar) AS CREATE USER $1;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "CREATE" at character 33

--> Then I was looking into the manual and found that PREPARE/EXECUTE
only works with SIUD :-(

Facit: pgplsql does not work for my problem, execute does not work problem.

Is there any other way to enable a user to create other users than
granting superuser rights?
In my opinion it is a little much privileges to just create new users.

Proposal for a next release: CREATE USER system privilege. Where do I
have to request for such a proposal?

Regards Oli

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