Re: improve predefined roles documentation

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: improve predefined roles documentation
Date: 2024-06-13 20:11:15
Message-ID: ZmtSY6w4dw8um9fV@nathan
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 01:05:33PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> One of the main attributes for the GUCs is their category. If we want to
> improve organization we'd need to assign categories first. We already
> implicitly do so in the description section where we do group them together
> and explain why - but it is all informal. But getting rid of those
> groupings and descriptions and isolating each role so it can be linked to
> more easily seems like a net loss in usability.

What I had in mind is that we would retain these groupings. I agree that
isolating roles like pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data would be no
good.

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nathan

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