Re: Version 14/15 documentation Section "Alter Default Privileges"

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: David Burns <david(dot)burns(at)fedex(dot)com>, "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Version 14/15 documentation Section "Alter Default Privileges"
Date: 2022-11-04 09:49:42
Message-ID: f898e097dbe5e718ec1a6e977d4dda79a6548abb.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2022-11-03 at 11:32 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 19:29 +0000, David Burns wrote:
> > To Whom It May Concern;
>
> It concerns me, because I often see questions from people who misunderstand this.
>
> > Some additional clarity in the versions 14/15 documentation would be helpful specifically
> > surrounding the "target_role" clause for the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command.
> > To the uninitiated, the current description seems vague.  Maybe something like the following would help:
> >  
> > target_role
> >        The name of an existing role of which the current role is a member.
> >        Default privileges are only applied to objects created by the targeted role/user (FOR ROLE target_role).
> >        If the FOR ROLE clause is omitted, the targeted user defaults to the current user executing the
> >        ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command.
>
> +1

After some more thinking, I came up with the attached patch.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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0001-Improve-ALTER-DEFAULT-PRIVILEGES-documentation.patch text/x-patch 1.4 KB

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