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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CREATE USER
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:36:27 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Casanova <[email protected]> writes:
> > I just notice that when you create a user using CREATE USER and give
> > the user the ability to create other users it gets created as
> > SUPERUSER.
> 
> Are you talking about the CREATEUSER option?  That is documented, quite
> clearly I think:
> 
> 	CREATEUSER
> 	NOCREATEUSER
> 
> 	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!
> 
> The only way we could really make this any better is to remove these
> keywords, which might be something to consider.  The preferred SUPERUSER
> spelling has been accepted since 8.1 ... is that long enough to ensure
> everyone's converted their client-side tools?  Probably not :-(

How does this relate to people restoring pre-8.1 pg_dumpall dumps? 
Seems removing this option would cause the restore to fail.

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