Re: Question about role attributes docs

On 2022-01-12 02:07, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:40 +0900, Shinya Kato wrote:
>> I have a question about the documentation on ROLE.
>>
>> According to [1], INHERIT and BYPASSRLS can be specified when
>> executing
>> the CREATE ROLE command. However, there is no such description in Role
>> Attributes in [2]. Are these concepts different from Role Attributes?
>> Or
>> are they just not documented? If they need to be documented, I'll
>> create
>> a patch.
>>
>> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createrole.html
>> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/role-attributes.html
>
> I think that is indeed an omission, and adding documentation would be a
> good idea.
Thanks! I created the patch, and attached it.

> On the other hand, a lot of that information is more or less
> a duplicate of the CREATE ROLE documentation. I wonder if the latter
> page could be removed altogether.
I think there is certainly a lot of overlap. However, I think that the
SQL commands page and the database roles page should exist separately,
and should be maintained as they are because there are parts that do not
overlap (for example, IN ROLE and ADMIN).

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Shinya Kato
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