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    Remove redundant CREATEUSER/NOCREATEUSER options in CREATE ROLE et al. · d371bebd
    Tom Lane authored
    Once upon a time we did not have a separate CREATEROLE privilege, and
    CREATEUSER effectively meant SUPERUSER.  When we invented CREATEROLE
    (in 8.1) we also added SUPERUSER so as to have a less confusing keyword
    for this role property.  However, we left CREATEUSER in place as a
    deprecated synonym for SUPERUSER, because of backwards-compatibility
    concerns.  It's still there and is still confusing people, as for example
    in bug #13694 from Justin Catterson.  9.6 will be ten years or so later,
    which surely ought to be long enough to end the deprecation and just
    remove these old keywords.  Hence, do so.
    d371bebd
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