Обсуждение: roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined roles

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roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined roles

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PG Doc comments form
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/predefined-roles.html
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roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined
roles unless they are part of it having the WITH ADMIN option. this needs to
be corrected in the documentation
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/predefined-roles.html

On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 16:09 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/predefined-roles.html
>
> roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined
> roles unless they are part of it having the WITH ADMIN option. this needs to
> be corrected in the documentation

I see what you mean.  This text:

  Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege)
  can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...

should probably become

  Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege and have been
  granted the predefined role with the ADMIN option)
  can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



Re: roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined roles

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"David G. Johnston"
Дата:
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:36 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 16:09 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/predefined-roles.html
>
> roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege can no longer GRANT predefined
> roles unless they are part of it having the WITH ADMIN option. this needs to
> be corrected in the documentation

I see what you mean.  This text:

  Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege)
  can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...

should probably become

  Administrators (including roles that have the CREATEROLE privilege and have been
  granted the predefined role with the ADMIN option)
  can GRANT these roles to users and/or other roles ...


I would suggest just replacing the attempt at describing "performing group membership" here with a link to:

Like this:
"Normal roles can exercise these privileges by being added as member of these group roles as described in <xref>."

There isn't anything about these predefined roles and role membership that doesn't apply to any other role.

Though skimming that section it seems to need updating along the lines discussed above.

David J.