Hi PostgreSQL developers!
I'm comaintainer of the Debian package of postgresql (CC to its
maintainer) and just fixed the bug report below (see
http://bugs.debian.org/224716 for the whole thread):
----- Forwarded message from simon raven <simon@nuit.ca> -----
Subject: Bug#224716: postgresql-client: createuser fails
Reply-To: simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>, 224716@bugs.debian.org
From: simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:17:01 +0000
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version=2.61
Package: postgresql-client
Version: 7.3.4-9
Severity: important
Tags: sid
(#:~)- createuser -E -U postgres -W nagios
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? (y/n) n
Password:
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "NOCREATEDB" at character 61
createuser: creation of user "nagios" failed
it fails if i include the -E (encrypt password) option, otherwise it
works as expected, if i do not include the -E option.
----- End forwarded message -----
The problem is that createuser.c builds a wrong SQL string if just the
'-E' option without '-P' is given. This results in an SQL string like
CREATE USER ... ENCRYPTED NOCREATEDB
although it should read '... ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'blabla' NOCREATEDB'
The attached patch fixes this by just ignoring -E when -P is not
given. The patch should work against your current CVS; it is already
included in the Debian package CVS.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Martin
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Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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