From: "Rod Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> While I haven't thought about it very hard, it seems to me that a role >> might be equivalent or nearly so to a group. If so, we might be able >> to support roles with little more than some syntactic-sugar work ...
>A few other changes, like allowing ownership of an object to be a group >(role) rather than strictly a user. Also, at least in Oracle, one can grant ROLEs to other ROLEs. I don't know if that is what the SQL standard says though: GRANT role1 TO role2; Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html