Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 on Cygwin rejects all-numeric userid,

Sam,

Please keep your replies on-list.

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Sam Harbison wrote:
> >Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:09 PM
> >On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:36:22AM -0500, Sam Harbison wrote:
> >> pg_class_aclcheck: invalid user id 249779
> > ^^^^^^
> >Does "249779" above refer to the uid or logname? If the former, then
> >you have been bitten by Cygwin's 16-bit uid limit. If the latter,
> >then I can't explain the observed behavior.
>
> It was the logname, I believe. I just changed the logname on the
> account and the problem went away. There are only two accounts on the
> computer other than what WinXP supplies.

Actually, I just thought of a possible explanation. Did you regenerate
your /etc/passwd file after creating the 249779 user with mkpasswd? If
not, then this could explain the above error.

Jason

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