Re: psql: FATAL: role "xyz" is not permitted to log in

Egg in the face time.  I knew it was going to be one of those...


CREATE ROLE  --DOES NOT EQUAL--  CREATE USER

Whereas the latter implies LOGIN priv, the former does not.
I'd read about LOGIN auto-implied some time ago, but I'd not noticed
that is not so w/ a created ROLE.


Maybe you can smell the sulfur from where you are?


Ralph Smith

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On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralph Smith <smithrn@washington.edu> writes:
>> However I'm now trying to access it using all lower case.
>> Are you saying that IT'S confused and I should go all lower or use
>> quotes (") not (')?
>
> Well, you can do it either way.
>
> If you want the database to be really truly named "LabNews_dev"
> (mixed case) then you need to create it using the quotes, and then
> you'll have to use quotes *every* time you name it in SQL commands,
> and you'll have to be careful to use the mixed-case spelling in
> other contexts such as pg_hba.conf and psql command arguments.
>
> If you are okay with it really being named "labnews_dev" then you
> won't need quotes in your SQL commands, but you'll have to spell
> it in all lower case in pg_hba.conf and psql command arguments.
>
>             regards, tom lane