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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject why restrict role "public" but not "Public"?
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Hi,

I just noticed that we restrict creation of a role named "public", but
this is case-sensitive -- i.e. we don't restrict roles named PUBLIC,
etc.

Is this intended?

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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