s/user/role/ in section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel of docs.

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#1Johannes Choo
jhanschoo@gmail.com

Hi,

I think section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel can benefit from changing some
occurrences of the word 'user' to 'role. Specifically, in

"For example, if joe is an existing user"

and

"The special "user" name PUBLIC can be used to grant a privilege to every
user on the system.",

it is ambiguous whether "user" refers to any role, or a role with a LOGIN
privilege, especially when you consider that CREATE USER is shorthand
creating a role with LOGIN privileges.

Bests,
Johannes Choo

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Johannes Choo (#1)
Re: s/user/role/ in section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel of docs.

On 01/22/2016 09:23 AM, Johannes Choo wrote:

I think section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel can benefit from changing
some occurrences of the word 'user' to 'role. Specifically, in

"For example, if joe is an existing user"

and

"The special "user" name PUBLIC can be used to grant a privilege to
every user on the system.",

Done. These were the only two cases that were inconsistent, I think.

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#3Johannes Choo
jhanschoo@gmail.com
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: s/user/role/ in section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel of docs.

Great, thanks.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:56 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
wrote:

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On 01/22/2016 09:23 AM, Johannes Choo wrote:

I think section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel can benefit from changing
some occurrences of the word 'user' to 'role. Specifically, in

"For example, if joe is an existing user"

and

"The special "user" name PUBLIC can be used to grant a privilege to
every user on the system.",

Done. These were the only two cases that were inconsistent, I think.