Carlos Mennens <carlos.mennens@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My question is do I need to specify CREATEDB & CREATEROLE if I'm > already granting the SUPERUSER privilege? No, not really. The point of those options is to grant privileges to roles that aren't superuser. > Also when I generate a new role, is there any difference between using: > ALTER ROLE tom ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'md5081bea17b5503506d29531af33cc6f4e'; > \password tom Don't think so, except that in the former case you have to work out the encrypted password by hand. The latter is safer since the cleartext password will not escape the psql executable. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general