David G. Johnston:
A quick tally of the thread so far:
No Defaults needed: David J., Mark?, Tom?
Defaults needed - attached to role directly: Robert
Defaults needed - defined within Default Privileges: Walther?
s/Walther/Wolfgang
The capability itself seems orthogonal to the rest of the patch to track
these details better. I think we can "Fix CREATEROLE" without any
feature regarding optional default behaviors and would suggest this
patch be so limited and that another thread be started for discussion of
(assuming a default specifying mechanism is wanted overall) how it
should look. Let's not let a usability debate distract us from fixing a
real problem.
+1
I didn't argue for whether defaults are needed in this case or not. I
just said that ADP is better for defaults than role attributes are. Or
the other way around: I think role attributes are not a good way to
express those.
Personally, I'm in the No Defaults needed camp, too.
Best,
Wolfgang
