From: Peter Eisentraut 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; To assign privileges, the GRANT command is - used. For example, if joe is an existing user, and + used. For example, if joe is an existing role, and accounts is an existing table, the privilege to update the table can be granted with: @@ -1477,8 +1477,8 @@ GRANT UPDATE ON accounts TO joe; - The special user name PUBLIC can - be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system. Also, + The special role name PUBLIC can + be used to grant a privilege to every role on the system. Also, group roles can be set up to help manage privileges when there are many users of a database — for details see .