Re: Users in pg_shadow

Scott Holmes writes:

> I have a cron script set up to run VACUUM ANALYZE on two databases that appear
> to work fine except for a couple of messages that show up in the log:
>
> FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'newsltr' is not in 'pg_shadow'
> FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'wcgc_pg' is not in 'pg_shadow'
>
> newsltr and wcgc_pg are the respective names of the databases, there are no
> users with these names. This is on a postgresql-7.0.2 running on a Red Hat 6.2

You should make your cron script to connect as the proper user, probably
using the -U option of psql or vacuumdb. Otherwise the user name defaults
to one of various things, which is probably not desired here.

> I've seen no problems resulting from this but I would like to understand why.

Only if the fact that the VACUUM ANALYZE probably didn't actually execute
is not a problem... ;-)

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