Re: Pgscript : error creating a user with a variable as the password

> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:40:43 +0100
> From: guillaume@lelarge.info
> To: mr_weetos@hotmail.com
> CC: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Pgscript : error creating a user with a variable as the password
>
> Le 16/03/2012 14:23, plop plop a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a problem about creating a user with a password thanks to a
> > pgscript (pgadmin 1.14.1). I have searched a while around the internent,
> > but I have found no solution so far.
> >
> > The following script does not work ("error near « password»". Pgadmin is
> > in French, so i do not know how the warning exactly looks like in English) :
> >
> > declare @USER, @PASS;
> > set @USER='user';
> > set @PASS='password';
> >
> > CREATE ROLE @USER LOGIN NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE
> > PASSWORD @PASS;
> >
> >
> > Whereas this one does :
> >
> > declare @USER;
> > set @USER='user';
> >
> > CREATE ROLE @USER LOGIN NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE
> > PASSWORD 'password';
> >
> >
> > What am I doing wrong with the @PASS variable ?
> >
>
> You need to add quotes around it, this way:
>
> CREATE ROLE @USER LOGIN NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE
> PASSWORD '@PASS';
>
>
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