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Kim Haase resolved DERBY-4505. ------------------------------ Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 10.6.0.0 Issue & fix info: (was: [Patch Available]) Thanks very much, Rick. Committed patch DERBY-4505-2.diff to documentation trunk at revisions 898089 and 898091. > Document that views, triggers, and constraints run with definer's rights > rather than invoker's rights > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-4505 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4505 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Documentation > Affects Versions: 10.2.2.1, 10.2.3.0, 10.3.3.1, 10.3.4.0, 10.4.2.1, > 10.4.3.0, 10.5.3.1, 10.5.4.0, 10.6.0.0 > Reporter: Rick Hillegas > Assignee: Kim Haase > Fix For: 10.6.0.0 > > Attachments: DERBY-4505-2.diff, DERBY-4505-2.zip, DERBY-4505.diff, > DERBY-4505.stat, DERBY-4505.zip > > > Comments like the following can be found in the code, including this > particular example from > DDLConstantAction.storeConstraintDependenciesOnPrivileges(): > * Views and triggers and constraints run with definer's privileges. > This is an important behavior of Derby privileges which deserves to be > documented. I can find only one glancing reference to this behavior, viz., in > the Reference Guide section on the REVOKE command. There we learn that: > "You must use the RESTRICT clause on REVOKE statements for routines. The > RESTRICT clause specifies that the EXECUTE privilege cannot be revoked if the > specified routine is used in a view, trigger, or constraint, and the > privilege is being revoked from the owner of the view, trigger, or > constraint." > From that lone statement, a clever reader might deduce that Derby views, > triggers, and constraints run with definer rather than invoker rights. But > that is not the clear meaning of that statement in the Reference Guide. To > draw the necessary conclusion from that statement the reader would have to be > clever enough to understand the SQL Standard's tricky language around definer > and invoker rights--and that would be a very clever reader indeed. > In short, we need to document this behavior explicitly. I consider this hole > in our documentation to be a serious enough defect that I am marking this > issue as a Bug. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.