Commit f66c8252 authored by Andrew Dunstan's avatar Andrew Dunstan

Role membership of superusers is only by explicit membership for HBA.

Document that this rule applies to 'samerole' as well as to named roles.

Per gripe from Tom Lane.
parent 84b8fcaa
......@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ hostnossl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceable>
the requested user must be a member of the role with the same
name as the requested database. (<literal>samegroup</> is an
obsolete but still accepted spelling of <literal>samerole</>.)
Superusers are not considered to be members of a role for the
purposes of <literal>samerole</> unless they are explicitly
members of the role, directly or indirectly, and not just by
virtue of being a superuser.
The value <literal>replication</> specifies that the record
matches if a replication connection is requested (note that
replication connections do not specify any particular database).
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