Re: Inconsistencies with create role

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with create role
Date: 2005-08-23 17:25:59
Message-ID: 430B5C27.9010602@commandprompt.com
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>The documentation already says prominently that roles and users are
>the same thing. If you're fooling with CREATE ROLE without having
>read any of that, I'm not sure that an error message will help.
>
>
I am talking about consistency here. Most people are not
going to think a role is a user, at least not initially since it
is a new feature. All I was saying was that the error message
was a little confusing.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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