Re: Add --{no-,}bypassrls flags to createuser

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: Shinya11(dot)Kato(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com, daniel(at)yesql(dot)se, michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add --{no-,}bypassrls flags to createuser
Date: 2022-04-19 01:50:12
Message-ID: 20220419.105012.1677795152077894444.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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Thanks!

At Mon, 18 Apr 2022 09:59:48 -0400, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 2:33 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
> <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > printf(_(" -b, --belongs-to=ROLE new role will be a member of this role\n"));
> >
> > + printf(_(" -m, --membership=ROLE this role will be a member of new role\n"));
> >
> > membership sounds somewhat obscure, it seems *to me* members is clearer
> >
> > > printf(_(" -m, --member=ROLE new role will be a member of this role\n"));
> >
> > I'd like to hear others' opinions.
>
> I think that we need to preserve consistency with the SQL syntax as
> much as possible -- and neither MEMBER nor MEMBERSHIP nor BELONGS_TO
> appear in that syntax. A lot of the terminology in this area seems
> poorly chosen and confusing to me, but having two ways to refer to
> something probably won't be an improvement even if the second name is
> better-chosen than the first one.

Hmm.. So, "-r/--role" and "-m/--member(ship)" is the (least worse) way
to go? Or we can give up adding -m for the reason of being hard to
name it..

regards.

--
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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