Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual

Zeugswetter Andreas wrote:
>
> Once a group is manually created with insert into pg_group values ...
> it can be used by the create user, alter user and grant to group syntax.
> A create group <groupname> is still missing in the grammar,

I'm working on this.. Should have something working around the end of
this week (for ALTER USER and CREATE USER).

> it would simply need to do the insert. Groups are very helpful with
> many users that all need similar grants. You grant rights to the group
> and then grant groups to users. The ANSI92 naming is "role",

Oracle calls it "role" and Sybase calls it "group".

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Stephane Lajeunesse.
Oracle and Sybase DBA