Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> BTW, I realized we do not support granting roles to PUBLIC: >> >> regression=# create role r; >> CREATE ROLE >> regression=# grant r to public; >> ERROR: role "public" does not exist >> >> but as far as I can tell SQL99 expects this to work.
> Indeed, I believe you're correct, sorry about missing that. However, on second thought I'm not sure that this is sensible anyway. Consider that every role is implicitly a member of PUBLIC --- so isn't the above a creation of a circular membership loop, which is (for good reason) forbidden by the spec? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org