Re: BUG #6264: Superuser does not have inherent Replication permission

"Keith Fiske" <keith(at)omniti(dot)com> writes:
> The documentation says replication is inherent to a superuser.

What it actually says is that superusers get the replication privilege
by default --- but you can create a superuser without that. If you
see a place that says something different, please point it out
specifically so we can improve it.

> After testing
> several times, I can assure you it is not.

Please show your test case. It looks to me like it works as expected:

regression=# create user foo superuser;
CREATE ROLE
regression=# create user foo2 superuser noreplication;
CREATE ROLE
regression=# select rolname,rolsuper,rolreplication from pg_authid ;
rolname | rolsuper | rolreplication
----------+----------+----------------
postgres | t | t
foo | t | t
foo2 | t | f
(3 rows)

> If you create a user as a NONsuperuser,
> then later ALTER them to be one, they will NOT have the replication
> permission and cannot be used as a replication user until you explicitly
> grant that permission.

That doesn't sound to me like a bug. These flags are independent, we
just provide a certain default at role creation time.

regards, tom lane