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sql: Incorrect documentation on Username constraints #15240

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Peyton Walters (pawalt) commented:

Our docs on username considerations state that usernames must begin with a letter, number, or underscore, but testing against cockroach demo shows that you can't start with an underscore:

[email protected]:26257/movr> create user 123test;
invalid syntax: statement ignored: at or near "123": syntax error
SQLSTATE: 42601
DETAIL: source SQL:
create user 123test
            ^
HINT: try \h CREATE ROLE
[email protected]:26257/movr> create user test;
CREATE ROLE


Time: 30ms total (execution 29ms / network 1ms)

[email protected]:26257/movr> create user _test;
CREATE ROLE


Time: 30ms total (execution 30ms / network 0ms)

Jira Issue: DOC-5839

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