On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:31:32AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > I almost hate to bring this up since I'm not sure how far we want to > go down this rat hole, but what should be our policy about mentioning > superuser? I don't think we're entirely consistent right now, and I'm > not sure whether every error message needs to mention that if you were > the superuser you could do everything. Is that something we should > mention always, never, or in some set of circumstances?
IMHO superuser should typically only be mentioned when it is the only way to do something. Since superusers have all privileges, I think logs like "superuser or privileges of X" are kind of redundant. If Robert has privileges of X, we wouldn't say "privileges of X or Robert." We'd just point to X. Ultimately, I feel like mentioning superuser in error messages usually just makes the message longer without adding any useful information. I recognize that this is a bold opinion and that the policy to mention superuser might need to be more nuanced in practice... -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
