Well! answering my own question using " works !
/Dev
--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Dev <dev_hyd2001(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
From: Dev <dev_hyd2001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: [ADMIN] create role syntax
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 10:30 AM
Hi,
Is it possible to have numbers as role names? I tried doing something like
create role 22221 login createdb
but I get a syntax error, however if I have an alphabet before the number it seems to work.
For example like
create role x22221 login createdb
/Dev