Issue Summary

* When using a password like with characters like '#μX)!]@-}' the login to the database fails in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.6.

Steps to Reproduce

• Configure JIRA to use a PostgreSQL database, having a user with a password containing special characters.
   

Expected Behavior

• JIRA Starts and it makes a successful login
   

Actual Behavior

• We receive a login failed error:

  2017-10-19 17:26:31,333 JIRA-Bootstrap ERROR      [c.a.config.bootstrap.DefaultAtlassianBootstrapManager] Could not successfully test your database: 
  org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "jirauser"
  	at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.doAuthentication(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:443)
  	at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:217)

Cause

• Unknown.

Workaround

• Not using any special characters in the password
• To use another database option.

Notes

• A similar issue was present before and was fixed in: JRASERVER-27796 although this time the issue is specific to PostgreSQL I tested in MySQL 5.7 and the issue is not present.