On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:16 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:14 PM Joshua Brindle
> <joshua.brindle@crunchydata.com> wrote:
> > Attached is an updated version of the patch to replace
> > is_member_of_role with has_privs_for_role for predefined roles. It
> > does not remove is_member_of_role from acl.h but it does add a warning
> > not to use that function for privilege checking.
> >
> > Please consider this for the upcoming commitfest.
>
> I am not sure I understand what the advantage of this is supposed to be.
Pre-defined roles currently do not operate the same way other roles do
with respect to inheritance. The patchfile has an explanation and
examples, I wasn't sure if that needed to be repeated in the email or
not.