Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:49:37 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: rightfold@gmail.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Documentation of FOR ROLE clause of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
 missing
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 07:50:19PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html
> Description:
> 
> The documentation of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES statements seems to lack an
> elaboration of the FOR ROLE clause.
> 
> It specifies what restrictions exist (namely "The name of an existing role
> of which the current role is a member."), but what the specified role is
> actually used for remains a mystery.
> 
> The documentation should read something like: "The default permissions are
> only granted on objects created by this role."

I know this is five years late, but we fixed this issue and the new docs
will appear in Postgres 17:

	https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html

We felt the doc rewrite was too extensive to backpatch.

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