Re: ALTER ROLES - questions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER ROLES - questions
Date: 2005-08-15 13:49:35
Message-ID: 25323.1124113775@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> I played around with roles a bit today and noticed some minor things:

> ALTER ROLE seems to support ALTER ROLE <name> ROLE <name> - but that
> form is not mentioned in the docs:

There are some cases that work, but are not documented (or supported),
as a result of the fact that the same productions are used in the
grammar to support both the ROLE commands and the older GROUP commands.
I don't think it's worth bloating the grammar to suppress this.

regards, tom lane

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