Re: Case sensitive grant statements in pg14?

Tom,

The items in { } are just placeholders for actual values. If the schema
name was my_schema and the role name was bob, I could have written instead:
grant create, usage on schema my_schema to bob;

but I had thought that using {schema_name} and {role} as place holders for
any valid schema and any valid role would be more concise.
It appears that I was mistaken.

I am having instances of (substituting example names for schema and role):
grant create, usage on schema my_schema to bob;

returning the error message:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "bob"

but:
GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON SCHEMA my_schema TO bob;

succeeding.

I hope that's clearer.

rik.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 1:36 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > grant create, usage on schema {schema_name} to {role};
>
> > fails with the error:
> > ERROR: syntax error at or near "{role}"
>
> > but by changing the capitalization of the statement to:
> > GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON SCHEMA {schema_name} TO {role};
>
> > completes successfully.
>
> What are you expecting will replace "{role}" with something
> valid? Whatever that is is apparently somehow dependent
> on the context being upper-case.
>
> regards, tom lane
>