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.
--
Michael
