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Allow CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD NULL to allow restoring the default state

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of having no password.
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Peter Eisentraut
2005-12-23 16:46:39 +00:00
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doc/src/sgml/ref/create_role.sgml
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_role.sgml,v 1.5 2005/12/18 02:17:16 petere Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_role.sgml,v 1.6 2005/12/23 16:46:39 petere Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@ -188,10 +188,13 @@ where <replaceable class="PARAMETER">option</replaceable> can be:
<listitem>
<para>
Sets the role's password. (A password is only of use for
roles having the <literal>LOGIN</literal> attribute, but you can
nonetheless define one for roles without it.)
If you do not plan to use password
authentication you can omit this option.
roles having the <literal>LOGIN</literal> attribute, but you
can nonetheless define one for roles without it.) If you do
not plan to use password authentication you can omit this
option. If no password is specified, the password will be set
to null and password authentication will always fail for that
user. A null password can optionally be written explicitly as
<literal>PASSWORD NULL</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>