Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-15T13:55:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- role.diff (text/x-diff) patch
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 04:33:27PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > 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. True. I have removed the parenthesis in this updated patch. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Embrace your flaws. They make you human, rather than perfect, which you will never be.
Commits
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Document deprecated createuser option.
- 381d19b3ea0e 16.0 landed
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Rename some createuser options.
- 2dcd1578c401 16.0 landed
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doc: improve description of adding roles as members
- ce3673daded3 16.0 landed
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Mark options as deprecated in usage output
- 2f80c95740f8 16.0 cited