Re: roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined roles

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: shamilsadique(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined roles
Date: 2024-05-02 10:36:41
Message-ID: dd749811928a31130ad96a2b4b2ea7d44fd45841.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 16:09 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/predefined-roles.html
>
> roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined
> roles unless they are part of it having the WITH ADMIN option. this needs to
> be corrected in the documentation

I see what you mean. This text:

Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege)
can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...

should probably become

Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege and have been
granted the predefined role with the ADMIN option)
can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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