Symbols in Redshift User Passwords work just fine

Recently read a few posts / discussions about people doubting Redshift not accepting (working-well with) ASCII symbols in User-Passwords.

It felt like a good time to write this short post showing that Redshift (Engine) seems to work fine with (non-alphanumeric) (printable) ASCII symbols.

You can see a few things (in the sample output given below):

• All non-alphanumeric printable ASCII characters worked fine (at least all that my US-International / QWERTY keyboard could throw at it)
• For those who also need ' (single-quote) and " (double-quote) you could always use $$ as quote-delimiters
• You still need at least One of each of the following:
• Upper-Case English-Letter
• Lower-Case English-Letter
• One Digit / Numeral

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# psql -U adminuser -h  rs_cluster -p 5439 db

psql (9.6.3, server 8.0.2)
Type "help" for help.

rs_cluster adminuser@db-# alter user userb with password 'Aa1~!@#$%^&*()_+-`{}[]|";:,<.>/?';
ALTER USER
Time: 237.012 ms
rs_cluster adminuser@db-# \q

# psql -U userb -h  rs_cluster -p 5439 db
Password for user userb:

psql (9.6.3, server 8.0.2)
Type "help" for help.

rs_cluster userb@db-# alter user userb with password $$Aa1~!@#$%^&*()_+-`{}[]|";:,<.>/?'"$$;
ALTER USER
Time: 191.505 ms
rs_cluster adminuser@db-# \q

# psql -U userb -h  rs_cluster -p 5439 db
Password for user userb:

psql (9.6.3, server 8.0.2)
Type "help" for help.

rs_cluster userb@db-#
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