Re: superusers are members of all roles?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew@dunslane.net) wrote:
>> The surprising (to me) consequence was that every superuser was
>> locked out of the system. I had not granted them (or anyone) the
>> role, but nevertheless these lines took effect.
>
> As I recall, the way we allow superusers to set role to other roles is
> by considering the superuser to be a member of every role.  Now, I agree
> that such an approach doesn't make sense for pg_hba consideration.

See bug #5763, and subsequent emails.  Short version: Tom argued it
wasn't a bug; Peter and I felt that it was.

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