Re: ALTER USER - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: ALTER USER
Date
Msg-id 1047834227.57699.22.camel@jester
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In response to Re: ALTER USER  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: ALTER USER  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> I see now that one can use this syntax to make a user valid forever,
> though it is different than setting the value to NULL (as is when the
> user hasn't got a validity defined).  This should be mentioned in the
> docs, I think.

It may be worth while to change the default for valuntil to be
'infinity'.  NULL implies they will expire, we're just not sure when.
Infinity shows that we do not intend to expire the user -- which is more
in-line with the actual implementation.

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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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