On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:21:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > On 10 May 2023, at 19:33, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > > I frankly don't > > know why --role matching CREATE ROLE ... ROLE IN was not already > > confusing in pre-PG 16. Any new ideas for improvement? > > 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. > > + 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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Embrace your flaws. They make you human, rather than perfect, which you will never be.
