"Kardos, Dr. Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since I havn't got any reply from the hackers list,
I was sort of expecting Peter to reply to you, since it was he that
recently rewrote the create/alter user code. From eyeballing the
code, it looked to me like the behavior had been thought through,
ie it's not so much a bug as a definitional question. But I have
to say that I don't quite follow the reasoning either. Peter?
regards, tom lane
>> On
>> CREATE USER username CREATEUSER
>> both pg_user.usesuper and pg_user.usecatupd are set to true.
>>
>> An
>> ALTER USER username CREATEUSER
>> sets pg_user.usesuper to true only, but not pg_user.usecatupd. The only
>> way to set pg_user.usecatupd to true is on creation.
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>> Andreas Kardos
