Re: CREATE USER

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I just notice that when you create a user using CREATE USER and give
> > the user the ability to create other users it gets created as
> > SUPERUSER.
>
> Are you talking about the CREATEUSER option?  That is documented, quite
> clearly I think:
>
>     CREATEUSER
>     NOCREATEUSER
>
>     These clauses are an obsolete, but still accepted, spelling of
>     SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER. Note that they are not equivalent to
>     CREATEROLE as one might naively expect!
>
> The only way we could really make this any better is to remove these
> keywords, which might be something to consider.  The preferred SUPERUSER
> spelling has been accepted since 8.1 ... is that long enough to ensure
> everyone's converted their client-side tools?  Probably not :-(

How does this relate to people restoring pre-8.1 pg_dumpall dumps?
Seems removing this option would cause the restore to fail.

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