On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 08:00:26AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> + If the <replaceable>database-username</replaceable> begins with a
> + <literal>+</literal> character, then the operating system user can login
> as
> + any user belonging to that role, similarly to how user names beginning
> with
> + <literal>+</literal> are treated in <literal>pg_hba.conf</literal>.
I would Ñ•uggest making it clear that this means role membership and not
privileges via INHERIT.
> - if (case_insensitive)
> + if (regexp_pgrole[0] == '+')
> + {
> + Oid roleid = get_role_oid(pg_role, true);
> + if (is_member(roleid, regexp_pgrole +1))
> + *found_p = true;
> + }
> + else if (case_insensitive)
It looks like the is_member() check will always be case-sensitive. Should
it respect the value of case_insensitive? If not, I think there should be
a brief comment explaining why.
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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
