On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 07:50:19PM +, 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.
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