Re: Hung postmaster (8.3.9)

On Monday 01 March 2010 @ 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> > On Monday 01 March 2010 @ 17:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> >>> There is one, looks like a typo got in. How do I fix it?
> >>
> >> Hmm, a user named @, or what?
> >
> > Yes, a bogus user:
> >
> > "@" "" ""
>
> Mph. We really ought to fix things so that a quoted @ doesn't
> get taken as an include file reference. Odd that it's never
> come up before.
>
> Anyway, if you still have any open superuser sessions, the
> best thing would be an ALTER USER RENAME. If you don't,
> you'll have to resort to manually editing the pg_auth file,
> and then rename the user as soon as you can get in.

Killed the stuck postmaster with sigkill, edited the file,
restarted postmaster, and it re-wrote the file with the bogus
entry. I don't have any superuser sessions open. Is there
another route?

Ed