The situation seems to be a bug that this patch would address. It seems to me that when a username is considered unsafe due to containing double quotes, the double quotes should be escaped (and the backslashes)!
Does this look alright? Chris Index: src/backend/utils/adt/acl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/adt/acl.c,v retrieving revision 1.94 diff -c -r1.94 acl.c *** src/backend/utils/adt/acl.c 4 Aug 2003 02:40:04 -0000 1.94 --- src/backend/utils/adt/acl.c 8 Aug 2003 09:03:19 -0000 *************** *** 124,131 **** } if (!safe) *p++ = '"'; ! for (src = s; *src; src++) *p++ = *src; if (!safe) *p++ = '"'; *p = '\0'; --- 124,134 ---- } if (!safe) *p++ = '"'; ! for (src = s; *src; src++) { ! if (!safe && (*src == '"' || *src == '\\')) ! *p++ = '\\'; *p++ = *src; + } if (!safe) *p++ = '"'; *p = '\0'; ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org