On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 01:33:26PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > In writing the PG 16 release notes, I came upon an oddity in our new > createuser syntax, specifically --role and --member. It turns out that > --role matches CREATE ROLE ... ROLE IN (and has prior to PG 16) while > the new --member option matches CREATE ROLE ... ROLE. The PG 16 feature > discussion thread is here: > > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/69a9851035cf0f0477bcc5d742b031a3%40oss.nttdata.com > > This seems like it will be forever confusing to people. I frankly don't > know why --role matching CREATE ROLE ... ROLE IN was not already > confusing in pre-PG 16. Any new ideas for improvement? > > At a minium I would like to apply the attached doc patch to PG 16 to > improve awkward wording in CREATE ROLE and createuser.
Patch applied. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Only you can decide what is important to you.
