Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephane Lajeunesse
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual
Date
Msg-id 3516FD10.3BBAD2BD@sympatico.ca
Whole thread Raw
In response to AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual  (Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at>)
Responses Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual  (Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>)
List pgsql-hackers
Zeugswetter Andreas wrote:
>
> Once a group is manually created with insert into pg_group values ...
> it can be used by the create user, alter user and grant to group syntax.
> A create group <groupname> is still missing in the grammar,

I'm working on this.. Should have something working around the end of
this week (for ALTER USER and CREATE USER).

> it would simply need to do the insert. Groups are very helpful with
> many users that all need similar grants. You grant rights to the group
> and then grant groups to users. The ANSI92 naming is "role",

Oracle calls it "role" and Sybase calls it "group".

--
Stephane Lajeunesse.
Oracle and Sybase DBA

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: [PORTS] RE: pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, possib
Next
From: Simon Shapiro
Date:
Subject: Re: [PORTS] RE: pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, possib