Re: How to determine if a user exists.. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Dominic J. Eidson wrote:

> I am trying to add another authentication mechanism to PostgreSQL... And,
> in doing that, I need to verify the existance of an user within PG. Short
> of hacking together code from verify_password(), is there any way to check
> if a user exists in postgresql? (The actuall password verification will be
> taken care of elsewhere... I just need to check if the user exists.)

pg_user holds users

(passwords in pg_shadow)

HTH,
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Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington