Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 on Cygwin rejects all-numeric userid, - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

From Jason Tishler
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 on Cygwin rejects all-numeric userid,
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Msg-id 20021230181129.GC1540@tishler.net
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 on Cygwin rejects all-numeric userid,  (Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 on Cygwin rejects all-numeric userid, pg_class_aclcheck  ("Sam Harbison" <sam_harbison@yahoo.com>)
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Sam,

Please keep your replies on-list.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Sam Harbison wrote:
> >Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:09 PM
> >On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:36:22AM -0500, Sam Harbison wrote:
> >>             pg_class_aclcheck: invalid user id 249779
> >                                                 ^^^^^^
> >Does "249779" above refer to the uid or logname?  If the former, then
> >you have been bitten by Cygwin's 16-bit uid limit.  If the latter,
> >then I can't explain the observed behavior.
>
> It was the logname, I believe.  I just changed the logname on the
> account and the problem went away. There are only two accounts on the
> computer other than what WinXP supplies.

Actually, I just thought of a possible explanation.  Did you regenerate
your /etc/passwd file after creating the 249779 user with mkpasswd?  If
not, then this could explain the above error.

Jason

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