Re: ALTER ROLES - questions

I see a lot of ALTER ROLE items not documented:
SYSIDIN ROLEROLE/USERADMIN

Is anyone working on documenting these?  I see these flags as used by
and documented in CREATE ROLE too.  Should they be disabled for ALTER
ROLE?

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Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 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:
> 
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole2;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# ALTER ROLE myrole ROLE myrole2;
> ALTER ROLE
> 
> ALTER ROLE <name> IN ROLE <name> (undocumented but seems logical to try
> because CREATE ROLE supports that) seems to result in the following a
> bit cryptic error message:
> 
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# CREATE ROLE myrole2;
> CREATE ROLE
> playground=# ALTER ROLE myrole IN ROLE myrole2;
> ERROR:  option "addroleto" not recognized
> 
> 
> I understand that adding/removing role membership can be done by the
> means of GRANT/REVOKE but at least improving the error message(or
> stopping the parser from accepting that syntax) a bit would be nice :-)
> 
> Stefan
> 
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