Thread: pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/ref alter_user.sgml
pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/ref alter_user.sgml
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momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian - CVS)
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CVSROOT: /cvsroot Module name: pgsql-server Changes by: momjian@postgresql.org 03/03/20 15:05:32 Modified files: doc/src/sgml/ref: alter_user.sgml Log message: This is not the only place in the system catalogs where NULL is effectively used to mean a default value that could also be spelled out explicitly. (ACLs behave that way, and useconfig/datconfig do too IIRC.) It's a bit of a hack, but it saves table space and backend code --- without this convention the default would have to be inserted "manually" since we have no mechanism to supply defaults when C code is forming a new catalog tuple. I'm inclined to leave the code alone. But Alvaro is right that it'd be good to point out the 'infinity' option in the CREATE USER and ALTER USER man pages. (Doc patch please?) Alvaro Herrera