Re: Roles

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> There's no builtin concept of an "admin"
> role.  There is such a thing as
> superuser, but that's a property of a role not a
> specific role (ie, you
> can have more than one superuser role if you want).  See
> "Database roles
> and privileges" chapter in the manual.  The CREATE
> ROLE reference page
> has some details too.  Be sure to consult the manual
> version
> corresponding to the PG version you are using, as the
> features in this
> area have changed over time.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Thanks for the response Tom, especially at this day and hour.

I will revisit these pages but I would like to draw your attention to this page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-createuser.html

Are the options not essentially existing roles?

Sincerely,
Bruce