I'm a little concerned and disappointed that the GRANT command doesn't do any sort of checking (like a foreign key for example) to verify that the database and table exist?!
I get the case of *.* but it seems crazy to me that it would allow foo.bar when neither a database named 'foo' nor a table named 'bar' even exist?!?! Clearly the GRANT command is a special case/tool that should have this ability and throw an error or prevent this. If for some reason, this blind insertion is needed for some flexibility say with temporary tables or something that doesn't exist, then perhaps that should be a switch/parameter to the command to 'over-ride' the checking and allow the GRANT (after all, it's just an insert/update/delete statement when it all boils down to the mysql.user table). In fact, that COULD be the way these "special case people" get around using GRANT, just insert what they want directly into mysql.user,host,table, etc. and FLUSH PRIVILEGES. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
