Re: "System roles" mentioned in psql documentation

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "System roles" mentioned in psql documentation
Date: 2018-08-24 00:21:11
Message-ID: 20180824002111.GE30782@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:53:35AM +0200, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> This inconsistency is part of the more general problem that we miss a
> chapter, where our basic terms like 'database', 'cluster', 'segment',
> 'catalog', 'schema', ... are explicitly defined.

You may have a point here, not in the way of reworking entirely the
documentation, but in the fact that we may want to use "system objects"
instead of "system roles". I am not personally sure that it is a better
improvement than using "default roles", but that's a point to raise.
--
Michael

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