Re: Role incompatibilities

Is there a TODO here?

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Samstag, 25. M?rz 2006 16:10 schrieb Tom Lane:
> > No, the current implementation is a compromise between exact standards
> > compatibility and backwards compatibility with our historical "groups"
> > behavior.  I'm not really prepared to toss the latter overboard.
> 
> My two major sticking points here are the SET ROLE command and the noinherit 
> feature.  The SET ROLE command is not required by our historical group 
> behavior (because we didn't have it before) and does not do what the SQL 
> standard says it should do.  The noinherit feature is not required by the 
> historical group behavior (because groups are yes-inherit) and is not in the 
> SQL standard either.  So these two features were just mistakes as far as I 
> can tell.
> 
> I'm not passing judgement on whether a command like the currently implemented 
> SET ROLE command or a feature like the currently implemented noinherit 
> feature is useful.  They are just not in line with either the historical 
> group behavior or the SQL standard.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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