Re: Discrepancy in 9.1 Documentation on CREATE ROLE

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Ron Adams <ron@constellationmedia.com> wrote:
>> > The help for LOGIN/NOLOGIN at
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createrole.html: "...NOLOGIN
>> > is the default, except when CREATE ROLE is invoked through its alternative
>> > spelling CREATE USER." The help for CREATE USER: "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!" Eh?
>>
>> OK, brace yourself...
>>
>> You're mixing up the CREATEUSER option to the CREATE ROLE command with
>> the completely separate command CREATE USER.
>>
>> See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createuser.html
>>
>> I wonder if we ought to consider removing CREATEUSER and NOCREATEUSER
>> as synonyms for SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER.  It looks like that change
>> was made in 8.1, which is now EOL.
>
> Agreed.  They might still appear in dumps so maybe just remove
> documentation about them.

They shouldn't appear in any non-ancient dumps, and we don't guarantee
that those will work anyway: you're suppose to pg_dump with the new
version of pg_dump, running against the old cluster.

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