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Ryan P edited comment on SENTRY-620 at 3/8/15 12:39 AM: -------------------------------------------------------- Hey [~johndee] this functionality actually does exists you just need to wrap the table qualifier in back-ticks. i.e. 0: jdbc:hive2://ryan-p-2.ent.cloudera.com:100> grant select on `default.testpatch` to role test; No rows affected (0.343 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://ryan-p-2.ent.cloudera.com:100> show grant role test; +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ | database | table | partition | column | principal_name | principal_type | privilege | grant_option | grant_time | grantor | +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ | default | test | | | test | ROLE | * | false | 1425774500157000 | -- | | default | server1 | | | test | ROLE | * | false | 1421854212609000 | -- | | default | testpatch | | | test | ROLE | select | false | 1425774558034000 | -- | +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ 3 rows selected (0.217 seconds) *Note this is also true of roles with special characters such as `role-name` was (Author: ryan p): Hey [~johndee] this functionality actually does exists you just need to wrap the table qualifier in back-ticks. i.e. 0: jdbc:hive2://ryan-p-2.ent.cloudera.com:100> grant select on `default.testpatch` to role test; No rows affected (0.343 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://ryan-p-2.ent.cloudera.com:100> show grant role test; +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ | database | table | partition | column | principal_name | principal_type | privilege | grant_option | grant_time | grantor | +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ | default | test | | | test | ROLE | * | false | 1425774500157000 | -- | | default | server1 | | | test | ROLE | * | false | 1421854212609000 | -- | | default | testpatch | | | test | ROLE | select | false | 1425774558034000 | -- | +-----------+------------+------------+---------+-----------------+-----------------+------------+---------------+-------------------+----------+--+ 3 rows selected (0.217 seconds) > Allow database prefix in GRANT ON TABLE statement. > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SENTRY-620 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-620 > Project: Sentry > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Johndee Burks > Priority: Minor > > Currently you get the following error if you do the following command. > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://jrepo2-1.ent.cloudera.com:100> grant select on table > testdatabase.j1 to role jrole; > Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: ParseException line 1:29 > mismatched input '.' expecting TO near 'testdatabase' in grant privileges > (state=42000,code=40000) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)