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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.
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