Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:56:14 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, rirans@comcast.net,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Documentation:  21.5. Default Roles
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 02:45:02PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > I think that "predefined role" is better than "default role".
> > 
> > Thanks, patch applied through 9.6.
> 
> Erm, I didn't agree with this and pointed to reasons why it was based,
> for starters, on a misunderstanding and further wasn't a particularly
> good idea anyway.  I'm not happy that it was committed, and to have been
> back-patched strikes me as even worse.  What about existing links to
> things like: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/default-roles.html
> which will now be broken, like from here?:

I talked to Stephen on the phone and he is going to fix the doc areas I
missed, and add some C comments.  :-)  Thanks.

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