Informix Error -19810: Cannot set database password for a role.

Reasons / Common Causes

-19810 fires when a database password is set for a role instead of a user — per the official guidance. A database password can only be set for a user.

1. A database password set for a role, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Set the database password for a user instead, per the official guidance.

Examples

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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond targeting a role instead of a user.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check whether the target of the password-setting operation is a role, and redirect it to a user.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -19806 — "Cannot grant database privileges or default role to a role." A related role-restriction error, about database-level privileges/default roles rather than passwords, but the same general "roles can't take user-only operations" pattern.

A database password can't be set for a role — set it for a user instead.