Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: stored procedure to GRANT priveledges not working
Author Max Renshaw-Fox
Or, ofcourse, update the site engines to FB 1.5 - which is a pretty
seamless exercise in my experience (and hence maybe less overall work).

Max

> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "robertgilland"
> <robert_gilland@...> wrote:
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>> However Ihave customers still using Firebird 1
>> the EXECUTE STATEMENT command does not work.
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>> I don't know what to do with out having access to the
>> EXECUTE STATEMENT command.
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> I should have checked the list. You asked the same question yesterday
> and got a tonne of replies you have not responded to.
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> Execute Procedure is a new 'feature' in FB 1.5. It is like me
> complaining that I can not use context variables in FB 1.5. The
> Firebird release notes state it is a feature of 1.5 and higher.
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> As you would have read from yesterday, there is no global grant all
> everything to someone. The quick work around requires 1.5 or higher.
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> The proper way to do it is to create the grant statements.
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> Perhaps you could modify the stored procedure to return the grant
> statement as an output parameter instead of executing it. Then run the
> procedure in iSQL and copy paste into notepad.
>
> voila, a DDL script you can run on against any database with that
> structure.
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> Adam
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