MySQL 8.0: Making User Management DDLs Atomic

MySQL 8.0: Making User Management DDLs Atomic

With MySQL 8.0, we are bringing in an important change in the way user management DDLs are executed.

Background

User management DDLs cover following user management actions:

• Creating user/role (CREATE USER [IF NOT EXISTS] / CREATE ROLE [IF NOT EXISTS])
• Altering user account properties (ALTER USER [IF EXISTS])
• Dropping user/role from database (DROP USER [IF EXISTS] / DROP ROLE [IF EXISTS])
• Granting/Revoking privileges to/from a user/role (GRANT/REVOKE)

Each of these administrative action can handle multiple entities as a part of single command.…

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