I am creating an application that will need to have access control. There will basically be the groups (roles ?): * normal user (can do insert on a limited sate of tables, and select on a slightly larger set * project manager will have some increased insert and select capabilities * sysadmin will be able to do select and insert on all tables in the schema There will be more than one person in each of these groups. My original intent was to create roles, and assign users to appropriate roles, using inheritance to add increasingly greater capabilities. That is the inheritance would look like this normal user <- project manager <- sysadmin But, I have run up ion a note in the documentation that says that create user is actually a synonym for create role. So, should I just create roles for each user? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin