Roberts, Jon wrote:
> When I view the permissions of a schema or table, I noticed that the icon
> for an existing grant to a group role shows a single user icon. If I grant
> usage to a group role, the icon that is created shows multiple little
> people. Commit these changes, close the window, and open it again. Now the
> icon changed from the group role to a single role icon.
>
> Is that a bug or a feature?
Let's call it a performance related feature :-). By not distinguishing
between login roles and group roles we avoid trawling through the
catalogs to check whether a role has any members or not.
/D
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