Re: Extra functionality to createuser

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sitting on my todo list for a while has been to consider the idea of
> adding a bit of additional functionality to createuser.
>
> One of the functions of CREATE ROLE is to associate the role with
> other roles, thus...
>
>    create role my_new_user nosuperuser nocreatedb login
>     IN ROLE app_readonly_role, app2_writer_role;
>
> That isn't something that I can do using createuser; to do that, I
> would need to submit two requests separately:
>
>    PGUSER=postgres createuser -D -S -l my_new_user
>    PGUSER=postgres psql -c "grant app_readonly_role, app2_writer_role
> to my_new_user;"
>
> I could certainly change over to using psql to do all the work, but it
> would be rather nice if createuser had (say) a "-g" option which
> allowed specifying the set of roles that should be assigned.
>
> Thus, the above commands might be replaced by:
>    PGUSER=postgres createuser -D -S -l -g
> app_readonly_role,app2_writer_role my_new_user
>
> Would this be worth adding to the ToDo list?

I'd be inclined to favor a patch implementing this.

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