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Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens

From
Herbert Liechti
Date:
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

Thanks and best regards
Herbie
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Re: Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
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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Re: Wanted: Trick for granting permissions to users with hyphens

From
Bruno Wolff III
Date:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 16:48:49 +0100,
  Herbert Liechti <herbie@thinx.ch> 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

Single quotes are for data; use double quotes for including special characters
in names.