Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > 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 minimum 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?

The concept of group itself is deprecated, which I think is why the
parenthesis are used.

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