On 2012-02-08, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> ALTER ROLE tom ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'md5081bea17b5503506d29531af33cc6f4e';
>
> \password tom
>
> Is there a downside to using the \password psql command? Is it also
> encrypted like the statement above? How do you create roles and do you
> do it manually or ha
Carlos Mennens writes:
> My question is do I need to specify CREATEDB & CREATEROLE if I'm
> already granting the SUPERUSER privilege?
No, not really. The point of those options is to grant privileges to
roles that aren't superuser.
> Also when I generate a new role, is there any difference betw
I'm wondering about my CREATE ROLE statements for PostgreSQL. I guess
I don't know if there's an official answer but I feel like I'm
entering a lot of redundant privileges to a role for example:
CREATE ROLE tom NOINHERIT LOGIN SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE REPLICATION;
CREATE ROLE
My question is