Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16
Date: 2023-05-15 07:33:27
Message-ID: ZGHgR4ftCyO9kZOV@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 09:34:42AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> IIRC there were a number of ideas presented in that thread but backwards
>> compatibility with --role already "taken" made it complicated, so --role and
>> --member were the least bad options.
>>
>>> At a minimum I would like to apply the attached doc patch to PG 16 to
>>> improve awkward wording in CREATE ROLE and createuser.
>>
>> No objection.

None from here as well.

>> + role. (This in effect makes the new role a <quote>group</quote>.)
>> While not introduced here, isn't the latter part interesting enough to warrant
>> not being inside parenthesis?
>
> The concept of group itself is deprecated, which I think is why the
> parenthesis are used.

Not sure on this one. The original docs come from 58d214e, and this
sentence was already in there.
--
Michael

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