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The documentation of CREATE/ALTER ROLE has been missing two things related to PASSWORD: - The password value provided needs to be quoted, some places of the documentation marked the field with quotes, but not others, which led to confusion. - PASSWORD NULL was not provided consistently, with ENCRYPTED being not compatible with it. Reported-by: Steven Winfield Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154282901979.1316.7418475422120496802@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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