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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why no pg_has_role(..., 'ADMIN')?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:16:38 -0400
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Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> I think this already exists. The full list of modes supported by
> pg_has_role() is listed in convert_role_priv_string(). You can do
> something like pg_has_role('alice', 'USAGE WITH ADMIN OPTION'). This
> is not new: it worked in older releases too, but AFAIK it's never been
> mentioned in the documentation.

Surely that's a bad documentation omission.  Do we want to document
all the variants convert_role_priv_string allows?  They appear
functionally equivalent, so I'd be inclined to document just one.
'USAGE WITH ADMIN OPTION' seems a reasonable choice.

			regards, tom lane

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