Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16
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Msg-id ZGI54ekKAhm9CzWH@momjian.us
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In response to Re: createuser --memeber and PG 16  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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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.

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