Re: Bug#21681: postgresql: Doesn't allow granting to www-data

John Goerzen wrote:

  >>                 Were you able to create a user `www-data'?
  >> I get:
  >
  >I believe that the createuser script did it for me.

Yes, it does.  Very inconsistent!

  >> I agree that there is a bug, but it is that the error message is wrong!
  >
  >If grant would permit the username to be quoted in ' characters, then
  >the problem ought to go away, I think.

Currently, it appears that the authors don't want to change, so it is
necessary to specify a postgres user-id when connecting.

However there is, as you say in another mail, no convenient way of
doing that automatically.  We need an environment variable or a
command-line option to specify the user and (optionally) password.

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