Re: Adding group role to a user

[Korry Douglas <korry.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would have been polite of me to include a reference, apologies.

Group names and user names (which are really role names) are considered to be identifiers.  This page explains the quoting rules for identifiers in PostgreSQL:  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html


                -- Korry

I think that was only variant I hadn't tried. Looking through the history I had only used a single quote around the group name, not a double, but that did work.

Thanks,

Jay

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Korry Douglas <korry.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ALTER GROUP "schema-rw" ADD USER someuser.


                -- Korry

Someone here in their infinite wisdom decided that all our group names would contain a "-". Thus, all the groups look like "schema-ro" or "schema-rw", My problem is that neither a "grant <group-name> to <user>;" nor a "alter group <group-name> add user <user>" will work properly as the command interpreter doesn't like the group name having a "-" in it.

So, I'm looking for a work-around up to and including directly altering the pg_auth table. Any ideas?
--
Jay