From: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@rbt.ca>
>> While I haven't thought about it very hard, it seems to me that a role
>> might be equivalent or nearly so to a group. If so, we might be able
>> to support roles with little more than some syntactic-sugar work ...
>A few other changes, like allowing ownership of an object to be a group
>(role) rather than strictly a user.
Also, at least in Oracle, one can grant ROLEs to other ROLEs. I don't know if that is what the SQL standard says
though:
GRANT role1 TO role2;
Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com