From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:54:56 +0000 (-0400) Subject: doc: Change some "user" to "role" for consistency in the section X-Git-Tag: REL9_6_BETA1~140 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5fdda1ceab35311367ed0dbb283cd8aea896e49b;p=postgresql doc: Change some "user" to "role" for consistency in the section suggested by Johannes Choo --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml index 6a3b622098..f2055b0d58 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml @@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ ALTER TABLE products RENAME TO items; <para> To assign privileges, the <command>GRANT</command> command is - used. For example, if <literal>joe</literal> is an existing user, and + used. For example, if <literal>joe</literal> is an existing role, and <literal>accounts</literal> is an existing table, the privilege to update the table can be granted with: <programlisting> @@ -1477,8 +1477,8 @@ GRANT UPDATE ON accounts TO joe; </para> <para> - The special <quote>user</quote> name <literal>PUBLIC</literal> can - be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system. Also, + The special <quote>role</quote> name <literal>PUBLIC</literal> can + be used to grant a privilege to every role on the system. Also, <quote>group</> roles can be set up to help manage privileges when there are many users of a database — for details see <xref linkend="user-manag">.