Re: ALTER ROLE role-name-with-hyphen

use the double quotes (")

ALTER USER "foo-bar" WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'foo-bar'


--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com>
> Subject: [GENERAL] ALTER ROLE role-name-with-hyphen
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:49 PM
> Hi all -
>
> This is probably a new bee question... but, how do I change
> the
> password of a role that has a hyphen in the name?
>
> ======================
> $ createuser --no-superuser --createdb --no-createrole
> foo-bar
> $ psql
> Welcome to psql 8.3.0, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>         \h for help with SQL commands
>         \? for help with psql commands
>         \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>         \q to quit
>
> postgres=# ALTER USER foo-bar WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
> 'foo-bar';
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "-"
> LINE 1: ALTER USER foo-bar WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
> 'foo-bar';
>                        ^
> ======================
>
> So I can create the role but I can't figure out how to
> modify it.
> I've tried a variety of quoting and backslashing and
> such, but no luck
> yet.... any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
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