Re: SQL for CREATE ROLE xxx SUPERUSER

Erwin Brandstetter wrote:
> dpage@postgresql.org wrote:
>> Erwin Brandstetter wrote:
>>> Hi Dave!
>>>
>>> But is the line needed at all?
>>> Clearly it works the same way with just "CREATE ROLE tester SUPERUSER".
>>
>> It's not the same thing - pg_authid.rolsuper is the superuser flag,
>> pg_authid.rolcatupdate is the catalog update flag. It cannot be set
>> with CREATE or UPDATE ROLE, and is required for even a superuser to
>> directly update the catalogs (postgres has it by default though).
>
> The point is to cover the non-standard-setting of this flag.
> _Every_ superuser gets this flag per default (at least in my tests in pg
> 8.1 and 8.2). The update line is redundant in this case.
> If I set the flag to false in the catalog, then the update line vanishes
> from the reverse engineered SQL.
> So, the present logic works for non-superusers, but is backwards for
> superusers.

Ahh, gotcha. Fixed in SVN (ie. it now revokes catalog update if you
create a superuser with that option).

Thanks, Dave.