On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sitting on my todo list for a while has been to consider the idea of > adding a bit of additional functionality to createuser. > > One of the functions of CREATE ROLE is to associate the role with > other roles, thus... > > create role my_new_user nosuperuser nocreatedb login > IN ROLE app_readonly_role, app2_writer_role; > > That isn't something that I can do using createuser; to do that, I > would need to submit two requests separately: > > PGUSER=postgres createuser -D -S -l my_new_user > PGUSER=postgres psql -c "grant app_readonly_role, app2_writer_role > to my_new_user;" > > I could certainly change over to using psql to do all the work, but it > would be rather nice if createuser had (say) a "-g" option which > allowed specifying the set of roles that should be assigned. > > Thus, the above commands might be replaced by: > PGUSER=postgres createuser -D -S -l -g > app_readonly_role,app2_writer_role my_new_user > > Would this be worth adding to the ToDo list?
I'd be inclined to favor a patch implementing this. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
