Rolinherit- Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/view-pg-roles.html
Description:

Roles do not inherit the rolconfig, please see the below labs,

postgres=> grant test_audit_app_role to test_app ;
GRANT ROLE
postgres=>
postgres=> select rolname,rolconfig,rolinherit from pg_roles where rolname
in ('test_audit_app_role','test_app');
rolname | rolconfig |
rolinherit
---------------------+-----------------------------------------+------------
test_audit_app_role | {"pgaudit.log=write,function,role,ddl"} | t
test_app | | t
(2 rows)

postgres=>
postgres=>
postgres=>
postgres=> \du test_app
List of roles
Role name | Attributes | Member of
-----------+------------+-----------------------
test_app | | {test_audit_app_role}

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is there any way by which test_app user can inherit the roleconfig of
test_audit_app.

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#2David G. Johnston
david.g.johnston@gmail.com
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: Rolinherit- Role automatically inherits privileges of roles it is a member of

On Friday, October 1, 2021, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
wrote:

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/view-pg-roles.html
Description:

Roles do not inherit the rolconfig, please see the below labs,

Yeah, just like the documentation says:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createrole.html

Only permissions (grants) are inherited.

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People aren’t going to do this, you should keep such info private.

David J.