Re: User names cannot contain `-'

"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

> I have a bug reported on the Debian package of 6.3.2:
>
>  > videotapes=> grant all on tapes to www-data;
>  > ERROR:  aclparse: non-existent user "www"
>
> It is, in fact, impossible to create the user www-data:
>
>   template1=> create user www-data;
>   ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "-"
>   template1=> create user 'www-data';
>   ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'"

I believe createuser program did that for me (either that or it was
preinstalled; I don't recall.)  I did not issue a direct SQL command
to do it, so I think it is likely that createuser did it.

In any case:


template1=> select usename, usesysid, valuntil from pg_shadow;
usename |usesysid|valuntil
--------+--------+----------------------------
postgres|      31|Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 2037 CST
www-data|      33|Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 2037 CST
jgoerzen|    1000|Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 2037 CST
(3 rows)


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