Hi,

+1 for JIRA issue.

As it's not strictly a bug, I would say it's an "enhancement".

Regards,
Thomas


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Martijn Hendriks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late reply... I checked again and figure that it is not really 
> about permissions but about calling the DatabaseMetaData#getTables method 
> with the right schemaPattern. If the user from the repository.xml is used, 
> then the table is not found (yet that user can manipulate date), but if the 
> schemaowner user is used, it works fine.
>
> Disabeling the checkschema method as Alexander suggests would solve this. It 
> can be done by a system property or by an additonal configuration entry in 
> the repository.xml. Is it ok if I create a JIRA issue for this?
>
> Best regards,
> Martijn
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Klimetschek [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:37 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Jackrabbit fails to start if database user is not schema
>> owner
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Stefan Guggisberg
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jukka Zitting
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Thinking out loud: Wouldn't it be so simple if a database-based
>> >> persistence manager used only a single table with the workspace name
>> >> included as an extra column?
>> >
>> > agreed, however write performance might suffer in the case of many
>> large
>> > workspaces.
>>
>> It probably only "really" suffers when multiple workspaces are used at
>> the same time, forcing the database to synchronize stuff that is
>> actually separate.
>>
>> But a simpler solution for the problem that a user might have rights
>> to read/write a table, but not rights to see the metadata about it (if
>> this is actually possible in some databases), would be to add an
>> option for disabling the checkSchema() check. This would not read the
>> metadata to check for existence of the table and would not try to
>> create a table. Instead it could simply log the necessary create table
>> sql statement (eg. if an sql error happens, like "table does not
>> exist").
>>
>> This option would be off by default and wouldn't force us to rewrite
>> all the persistence managers and break backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Klimetschek
>> [email protected]
>

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