Re: CREATE USER bug

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:21, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > postgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a';
> > CREATE USER
> > postgres=# create user with encrypted password '98wq7912a';
> > ERROR: CREATE USER: user name "with" already exists
>
> So, what are we doing about this? If we're considering it a bug, one way
> to fix it is to move WITH from unreserved_keywords to reserved_keywords.
> Any other suggestions?

I think the code is fine as it is now, seeing how WITH is optional:

CREATE USER username [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ]

I don't see a huge problem with allowing "with" as a user name. Of
course, we could require them to write:

CREATE USER with WITH ...

but then WITH isn't optional anymore, at least for a user named 'with'.

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