GRANT (procedure)

Grants privileges on a stored procedure or external procedure to a user or role.

Grants privileges on a stored procedure or external procedure to a user or role.

Syntax

GRANT { EXECUTE | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
   ON PROCEDURE [[database.]schema.]procedure( [arg-list] )[,...]
   TO grantee[,...]
   [ WITH GRANT OPTION ]

Parameters

EXECUTE
Enables grantees to run the specified procedure.
ALL [PRIVILEGES]
Grants all procedure privileges that also belong to the grantor. Grantors cannot grant privileges that they themselves lack.

The optional keyword PRIVILEGES conforms with the SQL standard.

[database.]schema

Database and schema. The default schema is public. If you specify a database, it must be the current database.

procedure
The target procedure.
arg-list
A comma-delimited list of procedure arguments, where each argument is specified as follows:
[ argname ] argtype

If the procedure is defined with no arguments, supply an empty argument list.

grantee

Specifies who is granted privileges, one of the following:

WITH GRANT OPTION

Gives grantee the privilege to grant the same privileges to other users or roles, and also revoke them. For details, see Granting privileges.

Privileges

Non-superuser, one of the following:

  • Owner

  • Privileges grantee given the option (WITH GRANT OPTION) of granting privileges to other users or roles

Examples

Grant EXECUTE privileges on the tokenize procedure to users Bob and Jules, and to the role Operator:

=> GRANT EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE tokenize(varchar) TO Bob, Jules, Operator;

See also