On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>> Currently createuser cannot create a role with REPLICATION privilege
>> because it doesn't have any option to do that. Which sometimes annoys
>> me when setting up replication. I'd like to propose to add new options
>> "-x (--replication)" and "-X (--no-replication)" into createuser. "-x" allows
>> the new user to do replication, and "-X" disallows. The default is "-X".
>> Is it worth creating the patch?
>
>> Though I'd like to use "-r" and "-R" as the option name, they have already
>> been used for CREATEROLE privilege. So I'm thinking to use "-x" and
>> "-X" derived from XLOG. But does anyone have better option name?
>
> Better solution: don't have a short form of the switch.
That sounds better. I revised the patch so that it adds only "--replication"
option to createuser.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center