Re: Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens
Date
Msg-id 200311191647.hAJGlYG24335@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens  (Herbert Liechti <herbie@thinx.ch>)
List pgsql-general
Herbert Liechti wrote:
> Hello
>
> I like to grant some permissions to the user www-data (default user
> for apache under debian)
>
> GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE ON customer TO herbie, www-data;
>
> The statements throws the following error:
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "-" at character 64
>
> Seems to me that hyphens are not allowed for user names. But a ?createuser
> www-data? is working correct an I can access the database with that
> user.
>
> I tried to quote the www-data with 'www-data', www\-data with
> the same result.
>
> Any hints? I'm using 7.3.2

Double-quotes:

    test=> GRANT SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE ON test TO "www-data";

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