Granting Privileges on UDFs - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

SQL Data Control Language
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Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
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17.20
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June 2022
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The rules for granting privileges on UDFs are identical to those for macros except for the CREATE FUNCTION and EXECUTE FUNCTION privileges, as documented in the following table, which explains which UDF-related privileges are granted explicitly or not:

Privilege Usage Notes
ALTER FUNCTION
  • Not granted automatically to the creator when it creates a database or user.
  • Not granted automatically to a database or user when it creates a database or user.
  • Held implicitly only by user DBC.
  • Cannot be granted on a UDF.
CREATE FUNCTION
  • Not granted automatically to the creator when it creates a database or user.
  • Held implicitly only by user DBC.
DROP FUNCTION
  • Granted automatically WITH GRANT OPTION to the creator of a user, database, function, or function mapping.
  • Granted automatically without grant option to a created database or user on itself.
  • Held implicitly on a database or user for an owner of that database or user.
EXECUTE FUNCTION
  • Granted automatically WITH GRANT OPTION to the creator of a function or function mapping.
  • Not granted automatically to the creator when it creates database or user.
  • Held implicitly only by user DBC.

All newly created external UDFs are performed in protected mode by default. This is also true for all newly created methods and external procedures. UDFs do not run in modes.

Restrict the ALTER FUNCTION privilege to DBAs. The privilege allows a user to perform the ALTER FUNCTION statement, which can change the run mode of a UDF (from PROTECTED to NOT PROTECTED, for example).

For more information see the information about ALTER FUNCTION, ALTER METHOD, and ALTER PROCEDURE in Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples, B035-1144.