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Nathan Bossart cc2236854e Revamp documentation for predefined roles.
Presently, the page for predefined roles contains a table with
brief descriptions of what each role allows.  Below the table,
there is a separate section with more detailed information about
some of the roles.  As the set of predefined roles has grown over
the years, this page has (IMHO) become less readable.

This commit attempts to improve the predefined roles documentation
by abandoning the table in favor of listing each role with its own
complete description, similar to how we document GUCs.  Besides
merging the information that was split between the table and the
section below it, this commit also alphabetizes the roles.  The
alphabetization is imperfect because some of the roles are grouped
(e.g., pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data), and we order such
groups by the first role mentioned, but that seemed like a better
choice than breaking the groups apart.  Finally, this commit makes
some stylistic adjustments to the text.

Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZmtM-4-eRtq8DRf6%40nathan
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README.md

PostgreSQL Database Management System

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.

Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.

General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.

The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.