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Subject: Re: Question about role attributes docs
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Shinya Kato <Shinya11.Kato@oss.nttdata.com>,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:07:25 +0100
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On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 16:40 +0900, Shinya Kato wrote:
> I have a question about the documentation on ROLE.
> 
> According to [1], INHERIT and BYPASSRLS can be specified when executing 
> the CREATE ROLE command. However, there is no such description in Role 
> Attributes in [2]. Are these concepts different from Role Attributes? Or 
> are they just not documented? If they need to be documented, I'll create 
> a patch.
> 
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createrole.html
> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/role-attributes.html

I think that is indeed an omission, and adding documentation would be a
good idea.  On the other hand, a lot of that information is more or less
a duplicate of the CREATE ROLE documentation.  I wonder if the latter
page could be removed altogether.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe