Re: Upgrading from < 8.1 with users and groups with same name

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de> writes:
> Tom Lane [2005-12-29 22:20 -0500]:
>> I think the only real problem here is that the role ends up with
>> NOLOGIN set, which we could probably fix by reordering the commands;

> It will also lead to confusion, especially if the user is not in the
> group with the same name. If the admin assigned different privileges
> to the group and to the user, then collapsing them into one role
> would change the privileges for the members of the group, or not?

It would, but that would have been a really confusing situation to start
with.  I'm not finding this a compelling concern.

			regards, tom lane