Re: problems with GRANT on Solaris 8

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote:

> I'm running postgresql 7.0.2 on Solaris 8 and I get errors when I try to
> grant a user. The query and error are ike this:
>
> horde=# GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE ON active_sessions TO martin;
> ERROR:  aclparse: non-existent user "martin"
> horde=#
>
> Now, user martin exists on as a system user (it's my personal user acount),
> and I'm runnig the query as postgres user (the database superuser).
>
> What can be wrong?

you need to create teh database user martin using the 'CREATE USER'
commmand ...