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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: createuser/dropuser username
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:15:23 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that createuser/drouser reference documentation could be
> enhanced for username param. There is:
>
> "createuser is a wrapper around the SQL command CREATE ROLE. There is
> no effective difference between creating users via this utility and
> via other methods for accessing the server."
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/app-createuser.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/app-dropuser.html
>
> But createuser and dropuser wrappers in some cases are doing implicit
> quoting (when CREATE ROLE is not), which I think is not fully known
> and is undocumented here. For example:

I'm not sure this really needs to be documented, but what exactly do
you have in mind?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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