Thread: Error in pgaccess (parse error at or near """) on create new user with password

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Your name               :Thomas Swan
Your email address      :tswan@ics.olemiss.edu


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Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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When using pgaccess to create a new user the followin error results.

Error executing query
CREATE user "whomever" WITH PASSWORD "foo" CREATEDB CREATEUSER

PostgreSQL error message:
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near """

PostgreSQL status: PGRES_FATAL_ERROR


{any variation of rights reproduces the error}


Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Try to create  a new user with a password


If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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The with password doesn't like the double quote characters however, writing the same query by hand and using single
quotesworks...  just change the query or check and make sure the parser will expect double quotes if that is what's
expected. So either it's pgaccess using the wrong SQL statement to create a user or the statement is being incorrectly
handled.


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- Thomas Swan
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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Thomas Swan wrote:

> When using pgaccess to create a new user the followin error results.
>
> Error executing query
> CREATE user "whomever" WITH PASSWORD "foo" CREATEDB CREATEUSER
>
> PostgreSQL error message:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near """

The password must be single-quoted nowadays. Put that on the 7.0.1 list
...


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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
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Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE> writes:
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Thomas Swan wrote:
>> CREATE user "whomever" WITH PASSWORD "foo" CREATEDB CREATEUSER
>>
>> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near """

> The password must be single-quoted nowadays. Put that on the 7.0.1 list

I'd say single quotes is correct behavior for the password, actually.
Double quotes are only appropriate in a position where an SQL name is
wanted.  The underlying syntax is really
    CREATE USER <name> WITH PASSWORD <string>

            regards, tom lane
Tom Lane writes:

> > The password must be single-quoted nowadays. Put that on the 7.0.1 list
>
> I'd say single quotes is correct behavior for the password, actually.
> Double quotes are only appropriate in a position where an SQL name is
> wanted.  The underlying syntax is really
>     CREATE USER <name> WITH PASSWORD <string>

Yes, that's why we made that change. I was more referring to the pgaccess
"list". Sorry.


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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
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> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > > The password must be single-quoted nowadays. Put that on the 7.0.1 list
> >
> > I'd say single quotes is correct behavior for the password, actually.
> > Double quotes are only appropriate in a position where an SQL name is
> > wanted.  The underlying syntax is really
> >     CREATE USER <name> WITH PASSWORD <string>
>
> Yes, that's why we made that change. I was more referring to the pgaccess
> "list". Sorry.

Peter, is this a pgaccess bug?  If so, can you contact the author?

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