WL#2646: INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINE_PRIVILEGES view
Affects: Server-7.1
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Status: Un-Assigned
Now that WL#173 "Create Data Dictionary Tables for SHOW commands" is done,
after WL#925 "EXECUTE privilege" is done,
we will want a new metadata view: INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINE_PRIVILEGES.
I think the table should have these columns:
Standard name Remarks
------------- -------
GRANTOR omit
GRANTEE e.g. 'user'@'host'
SPECIFIC_CATALOG NULL
SPECIFIC_SCHEMA as in ROUTINES.ROUTINE_CATALOG
SPECIFIC_NAME as in ROUTINES.SPECIFIC_NAME
PRIVILEGE_TYPE always "EXECUTE"
IS_GRANTABLE as in TABLE_PRIVILEGES.IS_GRANTABLE
ROUTINE_TYPE as in ROUTINES.ROUTINE_TYPE
The last column, ROUTINE_TYPE, is non-standard but I guess
we must have some way to know whether the grant was on a
function or on a stored procedure.
For example:
After
"
GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION f TO pierre
"
There is a row in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINE_PRIVILEGES with
Standard name Remarks
------------- -------
GRANTEE 'pierre'@'%'
SPECIFIC_CATALOG NULL
SPECIFIC_SCHEMA d
SPECIFIC_NAME f
PRIVILEGE_TYPE EXECUTE
IS_GRANTABLE NO
ROUTINE_TYPE FUNCTION
See also: WL#1996 "TRIGGERS view", WL#2003 "PARAMETERS view", WL#2257
"REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS view".
Feature requests:
BUG#26886 No ROUTINE_PRIVILEGES table in INFORMATION_SCHEMA
"ROUTINE_PRIVILEGES implementation" blog posting by Shlomi Noach
http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/routine_privileges-implementation
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