On 2022-06-02 Th 14:06, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 1:17 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Point 2 would cause every existing pg_dumpall script to fail, which >> seems like kind of a large gotcha. Less unpleasant alternatives >> could include >> >> * Continue to accept the syntax, but ignore it, maybe with a WARNING >> for the alternative that doesn't correspond to the new behavior. >> >> * Keep pg_authid.rolinherit, and have it act as supplying the default >> behavior for subsequent GRANTs to that role. > Of those two alternatives, I would certainly prefer the first, because > the second doesn't actually get rid of the ugly wart. It just adds a > non-ugly thing that we have to maintain along with the ugly thing, > apparently in perpetuity. If we do the first of these, we can probably > remove the obsolete syntax at some point in the distant future, and in > the meantime, we don't have to figure out how it's supposed to > interact with existing features or new ones, since the actual feature > is already removed. >
+1 cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
