On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 07:50:19PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html > Description: > > The documentation of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES statements seems to lack an > elaboration of the FOR ROLE clause. > > It specifies what restrictions exist (namely "The name of an existing role > of which the current role is a member."), but what the specified role is > actually used for remains a mystery. > > The documentation should read something like: "The default permissions are > only granted on objects created by this role."
I know this is five years late, but we fixed this issue and the new docs will appear in Postgres 17: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html We felt the doc rewrite was too extensive to backpatch. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Only you can decide what is important to you.