Re: pgsql: Reserve the "pg_" namespace for roles

On Fri, Apr  8, 2016 at 08:56:34PM +0000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Reserve the "pg_" namespace for roles
>
> This will prevent users from creating roles which begin with "pg_" and
> will check for those roles before allowing an upgrade using pg_upgrade.
>
> This will allow for default roles to be provided at initdb time.

Nice you added the check to pg_upgrade, but I assume a pg_dumpall
restore is going to fail pretty badly, e.g. any pg_* object assignment
will fail.  I guess there isn't much we can do to fix that.

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