ALTER PROCEDURE v11

Name

ALTER PROCEDURE

Synopsis

ALTER PROCEDURE <procedure_name> <options> [RESTRICT]

Description

Use the ALTER PROCEDURE statement to specify that a procedure is a SECURITY INVOKER or SECURITY DEFINER.

Parameters

procedure_name

procedure_name specifies the (possibly schema-qualified) name of a stored procedure.

options may be:

• [EXTERNAL] SECURITY DEFINER

  Specify SECURITY DEFINER to instruct the server to execute the procedure with the privileges of the user that created the procedure. The EXTERNAL keyword is accepted for compatibility, but ignored.

• [EXTERNAL] SECURITY INVOKER

  Specify SECURITY INVOKER to instruct the server to execute the procedure with the privileges of the user that is invoking the procedure. The EXTERNAL keyword is accepted for compatibility, but ignored.

The RESTRICT keyword is accepted for compatibility, but ignored.

Examples

The following command specifies that the update_balance procedure should execute with the privileges of the user invoking the procedure:

ALTER PROCEDURE update_balance SECURITY INVOKER;

See Also

CREATE PROCEDURE, DROP PROCEDURE