To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Ron Adams <ron@constellationmedia.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Discrepancy in 9.1 Documentation on CREATE ROLE 
In-reply-to: <201110111511.p9BFBYX17467@momjian.us> 
References: <201110111511.p9BFBYX17467@momjian.us>
Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
	message dated "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:11:34 -0400"
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:59:10 -0400
Message-ID: <1734.1318348750@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> 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.

> Well, we have pg_dump support for 7.3 dumps (2002), so I don't see a
> reason to remove that capability.  Now, if we want to remove that
> support, then it would make sense to remove the rest, but I think people
> are still assuming old dumps can load, especially if they have the dump
> but not the 7.3 server installed.

I think removing them from the docs but continuing to accept them makes
sense.  We do still hear from people migrating from 7.4 or older, and
it's not always going to be practical for them to make a dump with a
newer pg_dump.

			regards, tom lane