Re: Difference options with the CREATE ROLE docs

From: Euler Taveira <euler(dot)taveira(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: alireza(dot)darksun(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Difference options with the CREATE ROLE docs
Date: 2020-04-10 13:58:58
Message-ID: CAH503wCtwaTbx+RA5oiDTNtoxMcMzhMMM5JYrJAmbog6pzrbRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 08:19, PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

>
> This page says that "CREATE GROUP is now an alias for CREATE ROLE.",
> But when u check the CREATE ROLE, u see they have different options,
> I don't know if this is on purpose or not, But if it's just an alias, then
> they should have the same options
> If it's not the "exact same", then I guess there should be some
> explanations
> about it
>
> It seems an oversight. I'm attaching patches to fix it in all supported
branches. v11 can be applied cleanly to v12/master.

Regards,

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Euler Taveira http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Attachment Content-Type Size
v10-0001-Sync-CREATE-ROLE-and-CREATE-GROUP-synopsis.patch text/x-patch 1.3 KB
v95-0001-Sync-CREATE-ROLE-and-CREATE-GROUP-synopsis.patch text/x-patch 1.3 KB
v96-0001-Sync-CREATE-ROLE-and-CREATE-GROUP-synopsis.patch text/x-patch 1.3 KB
v11-0001-Sync-CREATE-ROLE-and-CREATE-GROUP-synopsis.patch text/x-patch 1.4 KB

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