Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16

> On 10 May 2023, at 19:33, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> I frankly don't
> know why --role matching CREATE ROLE ... ROLE IN was not already
> confusing in pre-PG 16.  Any new ideas for improvement?

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 minium I would like to apply the attached doc patch to PG 16 to
> improve awkward wording in CREATE ROLE and createuser.

No objection.

+        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?

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Daniel Gustafsson