At 15:00, 19990812, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>So as to sum up (again) :
>
>1 - mysql has interesting access control capabilities,
> namely to accept wildcards in database names.
>
>2 - some of these capabilities cannot be reached by the GRANT command.
>
>3 - but rather necessitate a direct INSERT in mysql tables,
> what I found just a little bit annoying.
>
>4 - this is not a bug, but a feature;-)
I agree that this would be nice; it wouldn't break MySQL's GRANT
command's compatibility, it would just extend it (in the same
way that MySQL's permissions system is already extended). It is
inconsistent for us to not allow granting privileges on databases
and tables with wildcards in them. Since we'd ideally never want
anyone to modify the privilege tables directly, but always through
the GRANT command, this feature would be good.
That's my opinion, anyway.
Tim
