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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Cc: David Burns <david.burns@fedex.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Version 14/15 documentation Section "Alter Default Privileges"
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:28:05 -0500
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On Wed, Nov  8, 2023 at 01:12:24PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > I find the above sentence odd.  What is its purpose?
> 
> I cannot count how many times I have seen the complaint "I have run ALTER DEFAULT
> PRIVILEGES, and now when some other user creates a table, the permissions are
> unchanged". People tend to think that if you omit FOR ROLE, the change applies to
> PUBLIC.
> 
> Your improved documentation of "target_role" already covers that somewhat, so if
> you don't like the repetition, I'm alright with that.  I just thought it might
> be worth stating it explicitly.
> 
> I think your patch is fine and ready to go.

Patch applied back to PG 16.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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