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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: maksym.minenko@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A very confusing line...
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:43:14 -0400
Message-ID: <3609669.1616013794@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161596386355.24277.9899037855920450861@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <161596386355.24277.9899037855920450861@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I guess the phrase 
> because joe “inherits” admin's privileges

> should be changed to
> because joe was granted admin's privileges.

> The point is, otherwise he inherits something that is not inheritable...

Sure it's inheritable, according to the terminology being used here
(which is baked into the CREATE/ALTER ROLE syntax, so we're not
going to change it lightly).

			regards, tom lane





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