On Thu, 2022-11-03 at 11:32 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 19:29 +0000, David Burns wrote:
> > To Whom It May Concern;
>
> It concerns me, because I often see questions from people who misunderstand this.
>
> > Some additional clarity in the versions 14/15 documentation would be helpful specifically
> > surrounding the "target_role" clause for the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command.
> > To the uninitiated, the current description seems vague. Maybe something like the following would help:
> >
> > target_role
> > The name of an existing role of which the current role is a member.
> > Default privileges are only applied to objects created by the targeted role/user (FOR ROLE target_role).
> > If the FOR ROLE clause is omitted, the targeted user defaults to the current user executing the
> > ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command.
>
> +1
After some more thinking, I came up with the attached patch.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
