A few clarifications so you have more to go on:
to create the problem, we used the sql command with the "';" following the [CR] at the
end of the typed characters as shown here:
alter user y with password 'xx
';
then we attempted to log in as that user from another users' local sessio
"Thomas Yackel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got the error: "Bad abstime external representation ''" when attempted to start
>psql as a particular user and the postmaster shutdown.
> The problem, we discovered, is that this user had a carriage return contained within
>his password. Changing