Re: createuser/dropuser username - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: createuser/dropuser username
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In response to createuser/dropuser username  (Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
<gszpetkowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that createuser/drouser reference documentation could be
> enhanced for username param. There is:
>
> "createuser is a wrapper around the SQL command CREATE ROLE. There is
> no effective difference between creating users via this utility and
> via other methods for accessing the server."
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/app-createuser.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/app-dropuser.html
>
> But createuser and dropuser wrappers in some cases are doing implicit
> quoting (when CREATE ROLE is not), which I think is not fully known
> and is undocumented here. For example:

I'm not sure this really needs to be documented, but what exactly do
you have in mind?

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