Wayne Johnson <wdtj(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> According to the Postgresql manual, a user can alter their own
> password. When I try:
> alter user "test" with password "zzzz";
> Where test is the user id signed in with, I get the error:
> ERROR: pg_shadow: Permission denied.
Works for me. What version are you running?
BTW, any reasonably recent version of PG will object to that style of
quoting --- the password in ALTER USER is a string literal, not an
identifier, so it needs single quotes not double quotes.
regards, tom lane