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/grant/permission/system

URL: https://<aws.fqdn>/<aws.cluster.name>/gpudb-0/grant/permission/system

Grants a system-level permission to a user or role.

Input Parameter Description

NameTypeDescription
namestringName of the user or role to which the permission will be granted. Must be an existing user or role.
permissionstring

Permission to grant to the user or role.

Supported ValuesDescription
system_adminFull access to all data and system functions.
system_user_adminAccess to administer users and roles that do not have system_admin permission.
system_writeRead and write access to all tables.
system_readRead-only access to all tables.
optionsmap of string to stringsOptional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

NameTypeDescription
statusString'OK' or 'ERROR'
messageStringEmpty if success or an error message
data_typeString'grant_permission_system_response' or 'none' in case of an error
dataStringEmpty string
data_strJSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /grant/permission/system endpoint:

NameTypeDescription
namestringValue of input parameter name.
permissionstringValue of input parameter permission.
infomap of string to stringsAdditional information.

Empty string in case of an error.