Re: Allow placeholders in ALTER ROLE w/o superuser

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > I couldn't find any discussion of the idea of adding "(s)" to the
> > variable name in order to mark the variable userset in the catalog, and
> > I have to admit I find it a bit strange. Are we really agreed that
> > that's the way to proceed?
>
> I hadn't been paying close attention to this thread, sorry.
>
> I agree that that seems like a very regrettable choice,
> especially if you anticipate having to bump catversion anyway.

I totally understand that this change requires a catversion bump.
I've reflected this in the commit message.

> Better to add a bool column to the catalog.

What about adding a boolean array to the pg_db_role_setting? So,
pg_db_role_setting would have the following columns.
* setdatabase oid
* setrole oid
* setconfig text[]
* setuser bool[]

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov