Re: Version 14/15 documentation Section "Alter Default Privileges"

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 05:49:42PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 11:34 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 09:03:04AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2022-11-04 at 10:49 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2022-11-03 at 11:32 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 19:29 +0000, David Burns wrote:
> > > > > > Some additional clarity in the versions 14/15 documentation
> > > > > > would be helpful specifically surrounding the "target_role"
> > > > > > clause for the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command. To the
> > > > > > uninitiated, the current description seems vague.  Maybe
> > > > > > something like the following would help:
> > > >
> > > > After some more thinking, I came up with the attached patch.
> > >
> > I think something like this is highly useful because I have also seen
> > people very confused why default privileges are not applied.
> >
> > However, maybe it could be made even clearer if also the main
> > description is amended, like
> >
> > "You can change default privileges only for objects that will be created
> > by yourself or by roles that you are a member of (via target_role)."
> >
> > or something.
>
> True. I have done that in the attached patch.
> In this patch, it is mentioned *twice* that ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
> only affects objects created by the current user. I thought that
> would not harm, but if it is too redundant, I can remove the second
> mention.

I think it is fine, and I have marked the patch as ready-for-committer.

I think it should be applied to all branches, not just 14/15 as
mentioned in the subject.

Michael