Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A48B5DE57 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:05:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48778-01-3 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.8.0-rc2 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA32B5DD44 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:59:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p9C4xN4F009077; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:59:23 -0400 (EDT) To: Robert Haas cc: Bruce Momjian , Ron Adams , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Discrepancy in 9.1 Documentation on CREATE ROLE In-reply-to: References: <201110111511.p9BFBYX17467@momjian.us> <1734.1318348750@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:38:55 -0400" Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:59:23 -0400 Message-ID: <9076.1318395563@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.404 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201110/29 X-Sequence-Number: 7029 Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> 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. > Personally, I loathe all that is undocumented. But that might just be me. Well, could we bury the documentation in some corner where newbies wouldn't find it? regards, tom lane